Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic with a Blood-Sucking Twist

Jane Slayre is a 2010 parody novel by Sherri Browning Erwin that reworks Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre with vampires, werewolves and other creatures of the night. It keeps the outline of the original, following an orphaned girl who grows up unloved, attends a harsh school and becomes a governess at a mysterious house, but adds supernatural dangers and a darkly comic tone. It belongs to the wave of classic mash-ups of that period, and is a playful tribute by a later writer rather than a work by Brontë herself.