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"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"--
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American Horror tales, FICTION, Horror, Anthologies (multiple authors), Zombiism, Zombies, short story, fishing boats, Wormwood, ozone layer, zombie apocalypse, Fiction, horrorPeople
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Dead men working in the cane fields / W. B. Seabrook
After nightfall / David A. Riley
Mission to Margal / Hugh B. Cave
The Cairnwell horror / Chet Williamson
Crawling madness / Arthur Leo Zagat
Treading the maze / Lisa Tuttle
Red angels / Karen Haber
Later / Michael Marshall Smith
White Zombie / Vivian Meik
Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant
Bodies and heads / Steve Rasnic Tem
Death and suffrage / Dale Bailey
The Graveyard rats / Henry Kuttner
The Facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allen Poe
Feeding the dead inside / Yvonne Navarro
Ballet Negre / Charles Birkin
Dead right / Geoffrey A. Landis
The Taking of Mr. Bill / Graham Masterton
The Grave gives up / Jack D'Arcy
Herbert West-Reanimator / H.P. Lovecraft
Pickman's model / H.P. Lovecraft
Maternal instinct / Robert Bloch
Bringing the family / Kevin J. Anderson
Mess hall / Richard Laymon
Schalken the painter / Sheridan Le Fanu
While zombies walked / Thorp McClusky
April flowers, November harvest / Mary A. Turzillo
The Old man and the dead / Mort Castle
Jumbee / Henry S. Whitehead
Marbh bheo / Peter Tremayne
The Hollow man / Thomas Burke
They bite / Anthony Boucher
Come one, come all / Gahan Wilson
It helps if you sing / Ramsey Campbell
The Ghouls / R. Chetwynd-Hayes
The Corpse-Master / Seabury Quinn
The Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford
Vengeance of the living dead / Ralston Shields
The Song the zombie sang / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
Men without blood / John H. Knox
The Broken fang / Uel Key
It / Theodore Sturgeon
League of the Grateful Dead / Day Keene
Love child / Garry Kilworth
Corpses on parade / Edith and Ejler Jacobson
Where there's a will / Richard and Christian Matheson
The Dead / Michael Swanwick
The Song of the slaves / Manly Wade Wellman
The Outsider / H.P. Lovecraft
Eat me / Robert McCammon
Deadman's road / Joe R. Lansdale
Pigeons from hell / Robert E. Howard
Live people don't understand / Scott Edelman
The House in the Magnolias / August Derleth and Mark Schorer
Home delivery / Stephen King
Dance of the damned / Arthur J. Burks
Z is for zombie / Theodore Roscoe
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