What Do We Know About Zombies?

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious,the unknownand the unexplained. Are zombies realmythor legend? Find out all we know about the history of zombies. ZombiesΓÇöthe undeadΓÇöhave long been a subject of fascination. But can the dead really be brought back to life? When explorer William Seabrook first recorded details of his travels in Haiti in 1929he explained witnessing undead people working in the sugarcane fields there. He also wrote about Haitian stories that explained zombies as undead people who had been forced into labor. Since thenzombie lore has expanded and changed based on location and cultureand zombies have become a hot topic in Hollywood and popular media. They gained widespread Western interest when the movie Night of the Living Dead premiered in 1968. In this bookreaders will learn about the folklore of zombies and all manner of the living deadincluding how zombies continue to strike fear into the hearts of countless people.