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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