zombies

The undead provides a look at undead creatures and examines their evolution through myth, folklore, and popular entertainment. Myths about the undead-vampires, zombies, ghouls, and other creatures-were created in nearly every human society. Although the undead are no longer considered real, they maintain a hold on the public's imagination, bolstered by the popularity of numerous books and movies featuring such creatures.

Not every gift is a blessing. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl.

For nearly a century, big-screen tales of zombies have fascinated viewers, shambling their way from horror films to action thrillers and comedies. In recent years, there have even been news reports of real zombie-like behavior. But few know the truth behind Haitian folklore’s biggest contribution to global imagination. These pages get to the bottom of the origins of the zombie legend and its changes and development over time. The possible sources of (3z(Bzombification,(3y (Bincluding tropical drugs and poisons, are examined, and real stories of zombies are debunked. Real or not, zombies have invaded pop culture and there’s no escape.

"The popular Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang teach kids all about zombies"--Provided by publisher.

Twenty-two short stories, eleven of which were previously published, based on the Rot & Ruin series in which fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends fight a zombie plague in a post-apocalyptic America. Includes a related comic book script.

When Benny and his friends learn that a scientist may have discovered a cure for the zombie plague, they mount a search and rescue mission, unaware that the reapers want the cure to wipe humanity off the face of the Earth.

When she begins to hear and see howling hounds, accompanied by evil, yellow eyes, Eleanor Fitt knows that the necromancer, Marcus, is coming for her, along with his servants, the Dead. Eleanor needs the Spirit-Hunters, and in order to find them she will have to travel to France--where the Dead have taken over Paris.

Jack finds it hard to believe when his parents tell him the weird changes in his older brother, Stephen, are normal for teenagers, and his suspicions are confirmed when pets start disappearing and strange noises come from the attic while Stephen is supposedly away at school.

When a disease known as the "Hungry Death" plagues London during the Christmas season, changing everyone into zombies, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter miser who is particularly grouchy at Christmas, may be mankind's only hope against the disease.

Zombie Rea is in a burning hotel with a desire to eat Chihiro's flesh.