Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse

by Brad Steiger

Overview

30 bloodcurdling and bone-chillingly real-life zombie encounters. Not recommended for reading when a virus hits!

Paranormal researcher extraordinaire and author of hundreds of books on the mysterious and unknown, Brad Steiger provides an alarming chronicle of zombie history, and stories of first-person encounters. Along with the bloodcurdling stories, Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse explores spells and hexes; ceremonies and initiations; ghouls and wendigos; sacred zombie and voodoo-related sites; zombies and monsters of the Bible; and zombie traditions in China, Japan, the Pacific, India, Persia, and Native America. Some of the topics and stories chewed over in this fascinating book include…

Zombies versus Vampires

Damballah Wedo and the African Pantheon

Black Cat Mama Couteaux and the Great Zombie War

The Devil Baby of Bourbon Street

Recipes for Hungry Ghosts

Eating Human Flesh as a Religious Experience

Hitler’s Quest to Zombify the World

The CIA Experiments to Create a Zombie Nation

Golems and Tulpas—Psychic Zombies

Zombies and Voodoo Magic around the World

And many, many more hair-raising stories!

Highlighting news articles, historical accounts, and first-person interviews, Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse will leave you worried about whether man can survive the next plague.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578592968
Publisher:	Visible Ink Press
Publication date:	05/01/2010
Series:	The Real Unexplained! Collection
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	1,019,482
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

For five decades, award-winning writer Brad Steiger was devoted to exploring and examining unusual, hidden, secret, and otherwise strange occurrences. He wrote over 2,000 articles and more than 180 titles, with over 17 million copies in print. His titles include Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Houses; Real Encounters, Different Dimensions and Otherworldy Beings; Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds; Real Visitors, Voices from Beyond, and Parallel Dimensions; Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside; The Werewolf Book; and Conspiracies and Secret Societies. Steiger was a former high school and college teacher and a veteran of broadcast news magazines. From 1970-73, his weekly newspaper column, "The Strange World of Brad Steiger", was carried domestically in over 80 newspapers and overseas from Bombay to Tokyo. He was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on February 19, 1936. Steiger was married to Sherry Hansen Steiger. He died on May 6, 2018.

Editorial Reviews

"Every paranormal researcher, I'm sure, envies the files that Brad Steiger must have that allow him to be so prolific in delivering these amazing volumes of esoteric information. This book was an eye-opener for me. Top Paranormal Books of 2010"— About.com

"Not recommended for reading just before bedtime."— Alternate Perceptions magazine

"Real Zombies is a superb, and arguably definitive, look at the zombie phenomenon.... The subject is infinitely more complex than many realize. Like a zombie itself, Brad's book grabs you by the jugular and doesn't let go!"— FATE magazine

"Real Zombies, The Living Dead And Creatures Of The Apocalypse. Brilliant!"— Huffington Post

"... refuses to be limited by Shaun of the Dead-style zombie convention. Steiger is known for his encyclopedic exploration of ghosts, vampires and werewolves, and he lends the same exacting scrutiny to this look at reanimated corpses — and more."— Linda Godfrey's Bloghouse

"The title of the book screams out as something I would want to pick up and it details information about zombies, wendigos, and a lot of other supernatural critters. Also the book's author Brad Steiger obviously took great pains to research."— Pandora's Gate

"The stories in Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse are fascinating and chilling, bloodcurdling even. This comprehensive and unsettling study is an antidote to Hollywood films with their lurching, reanimated dead."— SirReadaLot.org

"The award-winning writer of more than 100 tomes about ghosts, werewolves and other night stalkers, lays to rest the misconceptions regarding the walking dead. He then goes on to tell more than 30 bone-chilling tales."— Sun magazine

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