Real zombies, the living dead, and creatures of the Apocalypse

Featuring 30 chilling stories of real-life zombie encounters, this comprehensive and unsettling study draws upon traditions found throughout the world to dispel common depictions of zombies as lurching, flesh-eating automatons made popular by countless movies and books. This fascinating collection includes the stories of the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street, a monstrous creature complete with horns and tail that still lurks in the shadows of the Big Easy; Black Mama Courteaux and the great zombie war, involving hundreds of zombie soldiers battling for the supremacy of their queen; and the swamp child of Mama Cree, who still roams the bayous of Louisiana. In addition to the stories, a variety of zombie-related facts are explored, including ceremonies and initiations, zombies throughout history, sacred zombie and voodoo-related sites, and zombies and monsters of the Bible.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- The Zombies Are Coming -- Zombies vs. Vampires -- Mummies and Zombies -- Out of Africa -- Voudon: How to Make a Zombie -- Witchcraft and Voodoo -- Voodoo Deaths -- Damballah Wedo and the African Pantheon -- King and Queen of the Zombies -- Marie La Veau, Voodoo Queen Eternal -- Black Cat Mama Couteaux and the Great Zombie War -- Curses, Spells, and Hexes -- The Devil Baby of Bourbon Street -- Voodoo Children -- Little Violette, the Zombie Child -- The Sin Eaters -- Wendigos Crave Human Flesh -- Recipes to Feed Hungry Ghosts -- Eating Human Flesh as a Religious Experience -- Hitler's Quest to Zombify the World -- CIA Experiments to Create a Zombie Nation -- Golems and Tulpas- Psychic Zombies -- Zombies and Voodoo Magic around the World -- Zombies and Monsters of the Apocalypse -- Azazel and the Watchers- Slavemasters of Earth -- Does the Rise of the Zombies Herald Armagedon? -- Appendix: The Voodoo Queens and Kings of New Orleans -- Bibliography -- Index.