Zombie Hunter

Author Zora Neale Hurston’s book, Tell My Horse, is a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of vodou or voodoo. She was the daughter of a Baptist preacher and she became an authority on black culture. Zora participated in vodou practices in Haiti and Jamaica during...

Zombies Are Hot

Zombies are HOT. Read the news. Review the stats. The undead are alive and causing an uproar. Whether it was, as some say, a post-911 response to the horror of terrorism; a comment on the alienation, frustration and sense of futility that has thus far characterized the new millennium; or...

2. The Men Behind the C...

I’m not sure how Clément got the idea to make a zombie, but he surely came across these monsters in his meanderings around the world because he, too, is a creature of darkness. He certainly knew just where to go to get the infernal recipe. I was unfortunate in that he chose me as his...

Zombies in Hollywood

Hollywood Zombies: 1932 The White Zombie: Bela Lugosi plays a vodou master enlisted to zombiefy a young bride. 1943 I Walked with a Zombie: Loosely adapted from Jane Eyre, the movie traces the dark discoveries of a nurse hired to care for a plantation owner’s catatonic wife. 1956 Plan 9...

Dead Love Short-listed ...

They love zombies in New Orleans! While still in draft form DEAD LOVE was short-listed as a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition in 2007. At the time it was called Dead Girls Don’t Lie. There’s also a conference, Words & Music, every year in that pirate’s...