A full-on history of the zombie's on-screen evolution from Caribbean bogeyman to flesh-eating corpse. Spanning seven decades of horror movie history with hundreds of stills, artwork, and an exhaustive filmography, this is the complete, long-awaited history of one of horror cinema's most enduring genres. Charting the entire ghoulish history of zombie cinema, from its origins in Haitian voodoo to its cinematic debut in 1932's White Zombie, are hundreds of zombie films from America, Europe and Asia, including Bela Lugosi B movies, Italian gore films, Nazi zombies, porno zombies, and blind monk zombies.
Jamie Russell is an author, screenwriter and journalist. His work has appeared in the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Wired, Total Film, EDGE, and many others. He's happiest writing about zombies, first-person shooters and William S. Burroughs. One day he plans to combine all three obsessions in the same feature article.
His books include Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood ("fascinatingly detailed and revealing," reckoned the Guardian) and the bestselling Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema ("the definitive history of the living dead," according to director John Landis).
Jamie has a Ph.D. in English Literature but he only calls himself Dr when talking to bank managers. He lives in Shropshire, England with his wife and two daughters - who are fed up with "those silly zombies" and want him to write a book about princesses instead.
