The Zombie Book | Free Book
Twoexperts on the unexplained and paranormal team up to bringyou the definitive guide to zombies!
Theapocalypse of the rapacious, infectious living dead is more probablethan ever—at least, if movies, books, and television are to bebelieved. But long before exotic viruses, biological warfare, andsinister military experiments brought the dead back to life in ourcinemas and on our television screens, there were the dark spells andincantations of the ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians, and theBabylonians. Blending the historical with the modern, thebiographical with the literary, the plants and animals with bacteriaand viruses, the mythological with the horrifying true tales, TheZombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead is acomprehensive resource for understanding, combating, and avoiding allthings zombie.
Morethan 250 entries cover everything about the ignominious role infolklore and mythology to today's pop culture, including …
Prideand Prejudice and Zombies
MadCow Disease
TheSpanish Flu Pandemic of 1918
TheCenters for Disease Control and FEMA’s Zombie Preparedness plans
TheMacArthur Causeway Face-eating Zombie
NaziExperiments to Resurrect the Dead
Nightof the Living Dead
andmuch, much more.
Blending historical review and a lot ofpop-culture fun with chilling tales of ravenous end-of-timeshorrors, The Zombie Book is perfect forbrowsing or for a thorough reading by fans of the macabre. Anextensive bibliography and index make this the perfect start toanyone’s quest for preparing for a zombie cataclysm.
In The Press
"...an amazing anthology that shows how zombie myths have grown
throughout history and around the world. ... A fascinating,
informative collection that anyone interested in the history of
zombies will want to read. It’s funny, scary, and sometimes shocking."
Library Journal
"Even if you’re a zombie fanatic,
I’ll wager you know only a fraction of zombie facts, lore, and legend.
Well, now you can get completely up to speed with
The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead. This book
provides comprehensive information about every zombie movie and TV
show ever made. The most interesting entries are the ones about
creatures, lore, or historical events with which I am not familiar."
About.com
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chock full of relative zombie items. It’s not just all films and/or
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"...an amusing and helpful encyclopedia to aid in film
studies as well as research into popular culture." ARBA
"The Zombie Book is a pleasant read. Just as the subtitle
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there’s a lot here, perhaps too much: movies, books, folkore, ancient
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