I found this to be pretty interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/04/25/zombie.virus.zombies.book/index.html?hpt=C2

 

It definitely isn't a surprise that zombies are mainstream these days, but the fact that its a front-page story (albeit for entertainment purposes... wait, that's all the news!).

How the book is described in the article, and the description on the Amazon page makes it to sound like an interesting read. It doesn't seem like it will be as much traditional story-telling, but maybe something more like Brooks' World War Z.

 

I'll put in an order for it later on today when I'm not on a shared network, and update this post when I finish it.

I found this to be pretty interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/04/25/zombie.virus.zombies.book/index.html?hpt=C2

 

It definitely isn't a surprise that zombies are mainstream these days, but the fact that its a front-page story (albeit for entertainment purposes... wait, that's all the news!).

How the book is described in the article, and the description on the Amazon page makes it to sound like an interesting read. It doesn't seem like it will be as much traditional story-telling, but maybe something more like Brooks' World War Z.

 

I'll put in an order for it later on today when I'm not on a shared network, and update this post when I finish it.

I for one never realized just how popular Zombies are until I began participating in this forum, then It's like when you buy a particular car and now you see it everywhere,There's Zombie TV shows,movies,books,tee shirts,news articles,guns and ammo.... Interesting.

I for one never realized just how popular Zombies are until I began participating in this forum, then It's like when you buy a particular car and now you see it everywhere,There's Zombie TV shows,movies,books,tee shirts,news articles,guns and ammo.... Interesting.

 

Round about when resident evil and 28 days later hit in 2002, we got a huge zombie Renaissance. Even in just movies, IMDB has 656 titles under the zombie key word. 2002's first listed zombie movie is resident evil, and it is on the list at 338 of 656. The first zombie movie on the list if from 1942 and most of the heavy lifting on the first 336 movies is done by the late 70s and mid 80s, at least in the US.

 

We've also got tons of zombie video games since then, zombie tvv shows, zombie books, etc that we didn't get with the last tow waves of zombie flicks in the US.

Round about when resident evil and 28 days later hit in 2002, we got a huge zombie Renaissance. Even in just movies, IMDB has 656 titles under the zombie key word. 2002's first listed zombie movie is resident evil, and it is on the list at 338 of 656. The first zombie movie on the list if from 1942 and most of the heavy lifting on the first 336 movies is done by the late 70s and mid 80s, at least in the US.

 

We've also got tons of zombie video games since then, zombie tvv shows, zombie books, etc that we didn't get with the last tow waves of zombie flicks in the US.

It's interesting to me because I spent several years when I was a kid on a small Caribbean Island where Zombies were not only part of Island lore but considered a real hazard. Sadly there were none in my neighborhood at that time.

The empirical data of zombies, as well as the different folklore (depending on what region you are in of course-- for some its not so much folklore as it is a "given"), is pretty interesting stuff-- albeit not nearly as "fun" as Romero's take.

 

I have read through Wade Davis' "The Serpent and the Rainbow" for both kicks and critical perspective, and it really grounds the whole genre [regarding zombies-- or, more accurately, vodou].

The empirical data of zombies, as well as the different folklore (depending on what region you are in of course-- for some its not so much folklore as it is a "given"), is pretty interesting stuff-- albeit not nearly as "fun" as Romero's take.

 

I have read through Wade Davis' "The Serpent and the Rainbow" for both kicks and critical perspective, and it really grounds the whole genre [regarding zombies-- or, more accurately, vodou].

It was called Obeah where I lived and the island's folklore and heritage was taught in school. I had schoolmates who ate a teaspoon of salt every night to prevent a Sucuyant's bite and went indoors on certain nights so as not to entice a Lajabless,or not turn over large rocks in small streams least you disturb a Duppy.

As I was reading through your post, I was about to ask if that is where your forum name came from! I only recently started looking at West African folklore, and its pretty cool to run in to someone with direct knowledge.

As I was reading through your post, I was about to ask if that is where your forum name came from! I only recently started looking at West African folklore, and its pretty cool to run in to someone with direct knowledge.

As you can imagine the history of the Caribbean is intertwined with that of Africa and some of that history persist today, My friends and I back in the 70's found a old Spanish cannon guarding a deep water bay where ships would anchor at the height of the slave trade, Probably still there buried in the hill.

dZombies are coming, believe it or not. Duppie, keep us posted on the situation with zombies in Haiti.

 

BTW, I was in Port-u-Prince back in 99.

dZombies are coming, believe it or not. Duppie, keep us posted on the situation with zombies in Haiti.

 

BTW, I was in Port-u-Prince back in 99.

Never been to Haiti, grew up in Trinidad and Barbados.