Twoexperts on the unexplained and paranormal team up to bringyou the definitive guide to zombies!

Theapocalypse of the rapacious, infectious living dead is more probablethan ever--at least, if movies, books, and television are to bebelieved. But long before exotic viruses, biological warfare, andsinister military experiments brought the dead back to life in ourcinemas and on our television screens, there were the dark spells andincantations of the ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians, and theBabylonians. Blending the historical with the modern, thebiographical with the literary, the plants and animals with bacteriaand viruses, the mythological with the horrifying true tales, TheZombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead is acomprehensive resource for understanding, combating, and avoiding allthings zombie.

Morethan 250 entries cover everything about the ignominious role infolklore and mythology to today's pop culture, including ...

• Prideand Prejudice and Zombies

• MadCow Disease

• TheSpanish Flu Pandemic of 1918

• TheCenters for Disease Control and FEMA's Zombie Preparedness plans

• TheMacArthur Causeway Face-eating Zombie

• NaziExperiments to Resurrect the Dead

• Nightof the Living Dead

• andmuch, much more.

Blending historical review and a lot ofpop-culture fun with chilling tales of ravenous end-of-timeshorrors, The Zombie Book is perfect forbrowsing or for a thorough reading by fans of the macabre. Anextensive bibliography and index make this the perfect start toanyone's quest for preparing for a zombie cataclysm.