The undead have gotten faster. Much, much faster. In the allegorical days of Romero’s living dead, zombies were slow, brainless clods. They ambled and rambled, hungry for flesh, but their threat was ...

What accounts for the current popularity of zombies? These shambling messes of rotting flesh don’t just pop up in movies anymore; they crawl out of books, comics, video games, television, and they ...

The history of the dead – or, more precisely, the history of the living’s fascination with the dead – is an intriguing one. As a researcher of the supernatural, I’m often pulled aside at conferences ...