Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse

Brad Steiger

Description

30 bloodcurdling and bone-chillingly real-life zombie encounters. Not recommended for reading when a virus hits!

Paranormal researcher extraordinaire and author of hundreds of books on the mysterious and unknown, Brad Steiger provides an alarming chronicle of zombie history, and stories of first-person encounters. Along with the bloodcurdling stories, Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse explores spells and hexes; ceremonies and initiations; ghouls and wendigos; sacred zombie and voodoo-related sites; zombies and monsters of the Bible; and zombie traditions in China, Japan, the Pacific, India, Persia, and Native America. Some of the topics and stories chewed over in this fascinating book include…

Zombies versus Vampires

Damballah Wedo and the African Pantheon

Black Cat Mama Couteaux and the Great Zombie War

The Devil Baby of Bourbon Street

Recipes for Hungry Ghosts

Eating Human Flesh as a Religious Experience

Hitler’s Quest to Zombify the World

The CIA Experiments to Create a Zombie Nation

Golems and Tulpas—Psychic Zombies

Zombies and Voodoo Magic around the World

And many, many more hair-raising stories!

Highlighting news articles, historical accounts, and first-person interviews, Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse will leave you worried about whether man can survive the next plague.

Sujets

• Unexplained Phenomena
• Body (disambiguation)

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578593415
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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or five decades, awardwinning writer Brad F Steiger has been devoted to exploring and examining unusual, hidden, secret, and other wise strange occurrences. A former high school teacher and college instructor, Brad published his first articles on the unexplained in 1956. Since then he has written more than two thousand articles with paranormal themes. He is author or coauthor of more than 170 books, including Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside; Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunt ed Places; The Werewolf Book; Conspiracies and Secret Societies, and with his wife, Sherry, Real Miracles, Divine Intervention, and Feats of Incredi ble Survival. Brad’s Otherworldly Affaires was voted the Number One Paranormal Book of 2008 by Haunted America Tours.

OTHER VI S I BLE I NK PRES S BOOKS BY BRAD S TEI GER

Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier With Sherry Hansen Steiger ISBN: 9781578591749 Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places ISBN: 9781578591466

Real Miracles, Divine Intervention, and Feats of Incredible Survival With Sherry Hansen Steiger ISBN: 9781578592142 Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside ISBN: 9781578592555 The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of ShapeShifting Beings ISBN: 9781578590780

ALS O F ROM VI S I BLE I NK PRES S

Angels A to Z, 2nd edition by Evelyn Dorothy Oliver and James R Lewis ISBN: 9781578592128 Armageddon Now: The End of the World A to Z by Jim Willis and Barbara Willis ISBN: 9781578591688 The Astrology Book: The Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences, 2nd edition by James R Lewis ISBN: 9781578591442 The Dream Encyclopedia, 2nd edition by James R Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver ISBN: 9781578592166 The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena by J. Gordon Melton ISBN: 9781578592098 The FortuneTelling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divina tion and Soothsaying by Raymond Buckland ISBN: 9781578591473 The Handy Religion Answer Book by John Renard ISBN: 9781578591251

Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds by Jerome Clark ISBN: 9781578591756 The Religion Book: Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers by Jim Willis ISBN: 9781578591510 The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication by Raymond Buckland ISBN: 9781578591725 Unexplained! Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomenam, 2nd edition by Jerome Clark ISBN: 9781578590704 The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, 2nd edition by J. Gordon Melton ISBN: 9781578590711 The Witch Book: The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neopaganism by Raymond Buckland ISBN: 9781578591145

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Real Zombies, The Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse

Copyright © 2010 by Brad Steiger

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Front cover art by Ricardo Pustanio; back cover photograph Shannon McCabe

ISBN 9781578592555

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Steiger, Brad. Real zombies, the living dead, and creatures of the Apocalypse / by Brad Steiger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9781578592968 1. Zombies. I. Title. BF1556.S735 2010 398’.45—dc22 2010007048

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