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001 2011026525
003 DLC
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008 110712s2011 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011026525
020 $a9780307740892 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS648.Z64$bZ66 2011
082 00 $a813/.0873808$223
084 $aFIC015000$aFIC003000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aZombies! zombies! zombies! /$c[selected by] Otto Penzler.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage,$c2011.
263 $a1109
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aVintage crime/Black Lizard original
520 $a"Zombies ain't what they used to be. Not so long ago, they were safely ensconced on Haiti so the rest of the world could merely scoff at the bizarre myth of the living dead on one relatively small Caribbean island. Well, they have proliferated at an alarming rate, invading the rest of the world, and it seems unlikely that they have any intention of going away anytime soon. W.B. Seabrook, in his 1929 book, The Magic Island, recounted "true" tales of voodoo magic on Haiti bringing the recently dead back to life as slow-moving, virtually brain-dead creatures who would work tirelessly in the fields without pay and without complaint. These stories introduced the zombie to much of the world, though most national folklores have similar tales and legends. A decade after Seabrook's groundbreaking volume, Zora Neale Hurston researched Haitian folklore and told similar stories of eyewitness accounts of zombies, as have subsequent anthropologists, sociologists, and others not prone to imaginative fancies. If zombie literature began with the reportage of Seabrook, it had powerful ancestral works on which to draw"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aZombies$vFiction.
650 0 $aZombiism$vFiction.
650 0 $aHorror tales, American.
650 7 $aFICTION / Horror.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors).$2bisacsh
700 1 $aPenzler, Otto.
856 42 $3Cover image$u978-0-307-74089-2.jpg