Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster.

About the Author
Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. He has written and edited many books on film, horror, science fiction and gothic literature, most recently Alien (BFI Film Classics, 2014), The Shining (BFI Film Classics, 2013) and The Mummy's Curse: A True History of a Dark Fantasy (2012).

Reviews
Luckhurst s wide-ranging history of this cult phenomenon is a richly detailed and eminently readable, nuanced, and rigorous story. He outlines the different shapes the complex, colonially driven monster takes in its century-long journey through the imperial American sub-Zeitgeist including its surprising global resurrection in the new millennium. Everyone from Zora Neale Hurston to 1950s pulp comics to esoteric space scientists and Kirkman had a hand in fashioning the imaginary creature we know today as the zombie. --Victoria Nelson, author of Gothicka and The Secret Life of Puppets"



Book Information
ISBN 9781780236698
Author Roger Luckhurst
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Reaktion Books
Publisher Reaktion Books
Weight(grams) 295g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 18mm