The Undead!
Title | The Undead! PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Roberts |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2013-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1477762078 |
Stories of the undead have existed at one time in almost every culture in the world. Today they are thought by most people to be the subject of legends or fairy tales, though they are very popular today in horror movies. This title talks about some of the different kinds of undead, such as mummies and zombies and what the true story behind some of the tales about these creatures might be. The story of Mercy Brown, a supposed vampire in Rhode Island in the late 1800s is delved into in greater detail.
Decolonizing the Undead
Title | Decolonizing the Undead PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Shapiro |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2022-08-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350271136 |
Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial, and neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film, and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, and Iraq, this book explores how the undead reflect a plethora of experiences previously obscured by western preoccupations and anxieties. These include embodiment and dismemberment in Haitian revolutionary contexts; resistance and subversion to social realities in the Caribbean and Latin America; symbiosis of cultural, historical traditions with Western popular culture; the undead as feminist figures; as an allegory for migrant workers; as a critique to reconfigure socio-ecological relations between humans and nature; and as a means of voicing the plurality of stories from destroyed cities and war-zones. Interspersed with contextual explorations of the zombie narrative in American culture (such as zombie walks and the television series The Santa Clarita Diet) contributors examine such writers as Lowell R. Torres, Diego Velázquez Betancourt, Hemendra Kumar Roy, and Manabendra Pal; works like China Mieville's Covehithe, Reza Negarestani's Cycolonopedia, Julio Ortega's novel Adiós, Ayacucho, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad; and films by Alejandro Brugués, Michael James Rowland, Steve McQueen, and many others. Far from just another zombie project, this is a vital study that teases out the important conversations among numerous cultures and nations embodied in this universally recognized figure of the undead.
The Undead Child in Popular Culture
Title | The Undead Child in Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Martin |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2024-08-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1040107184 |
In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child. Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that transgress the borders between life and death, rejuvenation, and decay, the authors present undeadness as a broader concept that explores how people, objects, customs, and ideas deemed lost or consigned to the past might endure in the present. The chapters examine nostalgic texts that explore past incarnations of childhood, mementos of childhood, zombie children, spectral children, images and artefacts of deceased children, as well as states of arrested development and the inability or refusal to embrace adulthood. Expanding undeadness beyond the realm of horror and extending its meaning conceptually, while acknowledging its roots in the genre, the book explores attempts at countering the transitory nature of childhoods. This unique and insightful volume will interest scholars and students working on popular culture and cultural studies, media studies, film and television studies, childhood studies, gender studies, and philosophy.
The Undead Eye
Title | The Undead Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Aeon |
Publisher | Sean Aeon |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2022-07-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
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The Undead Eye is a zombie trilogy found in the collection of short stories, The Outsider’s Mind, and is a lesson in Zombie Philosophy like no other. The story follows one established, adult zombie (Will); one newly turned, child zombie (Kennedy); and an infected scientist (Dr. Gren). The reader witnesses as Gren succumbs to the disease, and gradually loses her sensible grasp of reality. Will chaperons the reader down the path of humanity’s shortsightedness and the effects of fear. Kennedy details what it means to be different through the eyes of a child. “What we believe will always be more powerful than what’s real.” - The Undead Eye: Dr. Gren
City of the Undead
Title | City of the Undead PDF eBook |
Author | CL Werner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1839082852 |
A group of unlikely heroes are all that stand in the way of humanity’s demise as the zombie apocalypse engulfs the kingdom in this high fantasy adventure set in the world of Zombicide: Black Plague. Witch Hunter Helchen mourns her dear friend, one of many heroes The Black Plague has sent to their grave as it consumes the kingdom. Yet she is determined to save what remains of humanity. Helchen and her companions travel to the labyrinthine canals of Zanice to obtain magical resources that would change the course of the zombie plague. Horrendous swaths of the undead mark their journey, and the companions are pursued relentlessly by necromantic forces of evil. When they discover a friend turned foe, Helchen must decide if all zombies are monsters… or if a new darkness is taking shape across the land.
Isle of the Undead
Title | Isle of the Undead PDF eBook |
Author | C L Werner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2023-05-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1839082135 |
Necromancers and dragons stand between a heroic knight and victory over the zombie outbreak chewing its way through the fantasy realm of Zombicide Black Plague The Black Plague’s terrible toll never ends, unleashing a new wave of zombies with disastrous consequences. Low on hope, Knight Alaric von Mertz and his companions flee their crumbling sanctuary, and soon come under the unlikely wing of murderous pirates. There, they learn of a legendary artifact called Mournshroud that could destroy swathes of the undead, but to claim it they must defeat an evil sorceress on an isolated island. Guarded by a dragon! A knight’s honor demands he defend his kingdom, no matter the cost. Yet, as the undead hordes close in on them, a familiar evil waits in the shadows, plotting revenge on Alaric and everything he holds dear…
Vampires and the Undead
Title | Vampires and the Undead PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Ganeri |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 2010-08-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1615318992 |
Vampires have haunted our literature and mythology long before Twilight. This book explains the history of vampires, zombies, and other frightening undead creatures from around the world. Young readers will be fascinated by the fact-filled text and thrilled by the exciting illustrations.