Real zombies, the living dead, and creatures of the Apocalypse

Steiger, Brad (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781578592968 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1578592968 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xix, 313 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Visible Ink Press, c2010.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-306) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The zombies are coming -- Zombies versus vampires -- Mummies and zombies -- Out of Africa -- Voudon : how to make a zombie -- Witchcraft and voodoo -- Voodoo deaths -- Damballah Wedo, the snake god -- King and queen of the zombies -- Marie Laveau, the Voodoo queen eternal -- Black Cat Mama Couteaux and the great zombie war -- Curses, spells, and hexes -- The devil baby of Bourbon Street -- Voodoo children -- Little Violette, the zombie child -- The sin eaters -- The Wendigo's craving for human flesh -- Recipes for hungry ghosts -- Eating human flesh as a religious experience -- Hitler's quest to zombify the world -- The CIA experiments to create a zombie nation -- Golems and tulpas : psychic zombies -- Zombies and Voodoo magic around the world -- Zombies and monsters of the Apocalypse -- Azazel and the watchers : slavemasters of earth -- Does the rise of the zombies herald Armageddon?