The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead - Paperback

by Nick Redfern (Author), Brad Steiger (Author)

Two
experts on the unexplained and paranormal team up to bring
you the definitive guide to zombies!

The
apocalypse of the rapacious, infectious living dead is more probable
than ever--at least, if movies, books, and television are to be
believed. But long before exotic viruses, biological warfare, and
sinister military experiments brought the dead back to life in our
cinemas and on our television screens, there were the dark spells and
incantations of the ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians, and the
Babylonians. Blending the historical with the modern, the
biographical with the literary, the plants and animals with bacteria
and viruses, the mythological with the horrifying true tales, The
Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead is a
comprehensive resource for understanding, combating, and avoiding all
things zombie.

More
than 250 entries cover everything about the ignominious role in
folklore and mythology to today's pop culture, including ...

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  Pride
  and Prejudice and Zombies

  
  

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  Mad
  Cow Disease

  
  

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  The
  Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918

  
  

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  The
  Centers for Disease Control and FEMA's Zombie Preparedness plans

  
  

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  The
  MacArthur Causeway Face-eating Zombie

  
  

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  Nazi
  Experiments to Resurrect the Dead

  
  

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  Night
  of the Living Dead

  
  

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  and
  much, much more.

  
  

Blending historical review and a lot of
pop-culture fun with chilling tales of ravenous end-of-times
horrors, The Zombie Book is perfect for
browsing or for a thorough reading by fans of the macabre. An
extensive bibliography and index make this the perfect start to
anyone's quest for preparing for a zombie cataclysm.

Author Biography

Nick Redfern is the author of 30 books on UFOs, Bigfoot, lake monsters, the Abominable Snowman, and Hollywood scandals, including Monster Files, Monster Diary, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; Celebrity Secrets; There's Something in the Woods; Contactees; Final Events; The Real Men in Black; The NASA Conspiracies; Science Fiction Secrets; On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; Strange Secrets; and - with fellow Texas-based researcher and author Ken Gerhard - Monsters of Texas. He has appeared on more than 70 TV shows, including: Fox News; the BBC's Out of This World; the SyFy Channel's Proof Positive; the Space Channel's Fields of Fear; the History Channel's Monster Quest, America's Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens and UFO Hunters; Science's The Unexplained Files; the National Geographic Channel's Paranatural; and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Originally from the UK, Nick lives on the fringes of Dallas, Texas.

Award-winning writer Brad Steiger has devoted himself to exploring and examining unusual, hidden, secret, and otherwise strange occurrences. He has written over 2,000 articles and more than 150 titles with inspirational and paranormal themes, including Conspiracies and Secret Societies; Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds; Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Houses; Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside; Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside; and Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse. Brad is a veteran of broadcast news magazines ranging from Nightline to the NBC Nightly News. He is also a regular radio guest on Jeff Rense's Sightings, The Allan Handelman Show, Rob McConnell's X-Zone, and Coast to Coast with George Noory. He resides somewhere in Iowa.