Featuring 30 chilling stories of real-life zombie encounters, this comprehensive
and unsettling study draws upon traditions found throughout the world to dispel
common depictions of zombies as lurching, flesh-eating automatons made popular
by countless movies and books. This fascinating collection includes the stories
of the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street, a monstrous creature complete with horns
and tail that still lurks in the shadows of the Big Easy; Black Mama Courteaux
and the great zombie war, involving hundreds of zombie soldiers battling for
the supremacy of their queen; and the swamp child of Mama Cree, who still roams
the bayous of Louisiana. In addition to the stories, a variety of zombie-related
facts are explored, including ceremonies and initiations, zombies throughout
history, sacred zombie and voodoo-related sites, and zombies and monsters
of the Bible.

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