A new adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Something Wicked This Way Comes is in the works at Disney, and they’ve hired author and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith to make his directorial debut on the movie.

Grahame-Smith is best known as the author of a horror-infused rewrite of a classic in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and alternate history title Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. He also wrote the screenplays for the movie adaptations of these books—the latter having already been released and the former still said to be on the way—and the screenplay for the Tim Burton and Johnny Depp flick Dark Shadows.

Prolific and award-winning sci-fi author Ray Bradbury passed away yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 91 after a long illness. He is perhaps best known for his classic novels Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, but Bradbury also wrote hundreds of short stories, some 47 other books, as well as screenplays, teleplays, poems, essays, plays, and, according to his website, an opera (yes, an opera!) during his illustrious 70-year career.

Bradbury inspired generations to think beyond what was put in front of us, to dream, and to create. While he eschewed such modern inventions as video games and ATMs, and purportedly hated television, he adapted 65 of his stories for a TV series called The Ray Bradbury Theater, which aired first on HBO from 1985-1986 and then on the USA network from 1988-1992.

No fan of eBooks either, Bradbury finally relented last year and allowed Fahrenheit 451 to be published in ebook format, which we wrote about here.