The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of The Living Dead

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The epidemic of the living dead is stronger than ever in today's pop-culture, but history is rife with tales of the undead: the dark spells and incantations of the ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians and the Babylonians, among many others. The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead is a comprehensive resource to understanding, combating and avoiding zombies. More than 250 entries cover everything from hit television shows, books and movies, including The Walking Dead, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Qurik, 2009), to zombies' ignominious role in folklore.

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"...an amazing anthology that shows how zombie myths have grown throughout history and around the world. ... A fascinating, informative collection that anyone interested in the history of zombies will want to read. Its funny, scary, and sometimes shocking." Library Journal

"Even if youre a zombie fanatic, Ill wager you know only a fraction of zombie facts, lore, and legend. Well, now you can get completely up to speed with The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead. This book provides comprehensive information about every zombie movie and TV show ever made. The most interesting entries are the ones about creatures, lore, or historical events with which I am not familiar." About.com

"The Zombie Book is appropriately chock full of relative zombie items. Its not just all films and/or legends but more an overview of items and subjects that fall under higher interest items in the zombie genre. This is a great zombie reference book presented by 2 amazing authors." HorrorNews.net

"...an amusing and helpful encyclopedia to aid in film studies as well as research into popular culture." ARBA

"The Zombie Book is a pleasant read. Just as the subtitle indicates, it offers an encyclopedic look at all things zombie. ... theres a lot here, perhaps too much: movies, books, folkore, ancient mythology, conspiracy theories, cryptozoology, Voodoo, Ufology." PopMatters.com

Author Bio

Nick Redfern is the author of 30 books on UFOs, Bigfoot, lake monsters, the Abominable Snowman, and Hollywood scandals, including Monster Files, Monster Diary, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; Celebrity Secrets; Theres Something in the Woods; Contactees; Final Events; The Real Men in Black; The NASA Conspiracies; Science Fiction Secrets; On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; Strange Secrets; and with fellow Texas-based researcher and author Ken Gerhard Monsters of Texas. He has appeared on more than 70 TV shows, including: Fox News; the BBCs Out of This World; the SyFy Channels Proof Positive; the Space Channels Fields of Fear; the History Channels Monster Quest, Americas Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens and UFO Hunters; Sciences The Unexplained Files; the National Geographic Channels Paranatural; and MSNBCs Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Originally from the UK, Nick lives on the fringes of Dallas, Texas.

Award-winning writer Brad Steiger has devoted himself to exploring and examining unusual, hidden, secret, and otherwise strange occurrences. He has written over 2,000 articles and more than 150 titles with inspirational and paranormal themes, including Conspiracies and Secret Societies; Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds; Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Houses; Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside; Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside; and Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse. Brad is a veteran of broadcast news magazines ranging from Nightline to the NBC Nightly News. He is also a regular radio guest on Jeff Rense's Sightings, The Allan Handelman Show, Rob McConnell's X-Zone, and Coast to Coast with George Noory. He resides somewhere in Iowa.