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

By Brad Steiger

“Every paranormal researcher, I’m sure, envies the files that Brad Steiger must have that allow him to be so prolific in delivering these amazing volumes of esoteric information. This book was an eye-opener for me. Top Paranormal Books” —About.com

“Not recommended for reading just before bedtime.” —Alternate Perceptions magazine

“Real Zombies is a superb, and arguably definitive, look at the zombie phenomenon…. The subject is infinitely more complex than many realize. Like a zombie itself, Brad’s book grabs you by the jugular and doesn’t let go!” —FATE magazine

“Real Zombies, The Living Dead And Creatures Of The Apocalypse. Brilliant!” —Huffington Post

“… refuses to be limited by Shaun of the Dead-style zombie convention. Steiger is known for his encyclopedic exploration of ghosts, vampires and werewolves, and he lends the same exacting scrutiny to this look at reanimated corpses—and more.” —Linda Godfrey’s Bloghouse

“The title of the book screams out as something I would want to pick up and it details information about zombies, wendigos, and a lot of other supernatural critters. Also the book’s author Brad Steiger obviously took great pains to research.” —Pandora’s Gate

“The stories in Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse are fascinating and chilling, bloodcurdling even. This comprehensive and unsettling study is an antidote to Hollywood films with their lurching, reanimated dead.” —SirReadaLot.org

“The award-winning writer of more than 100 tomes about ghosts, werewolves and other night stalkers, lays to rest the misconceptions regarding the walking dead. He then goes on to tell more than 30 bone-chilling tales.” —Sun magazine

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.

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Quick Facts:

ISBN: 9781578592968
Ebook ISBN: 9781578593439
Hardback ISBN: NA

320 Pages
100 Photos and Illustrations
7.5″ x 9.25″
Trade Paperback Price: $44.95
eBook Price: $19.99

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American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States
The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti, and Cryptid Primates
Bigfoot Sightings: True Tales from Across America
Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings
Ghostly Encounters: Terrifyingly True Hauntings
The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts, and Fiends of Nature
Monsters of the Deep
Monsters: Myths, Legends, and Real Encounters
The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History
The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, Third Edition
The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead

About the Author:

Award-winning writer Brad Steiger devoted his life to exploring and examining unusual, hidden, secret, and otherwise strange occurrences. Steiger first began publishing articles on the unexplained in 1956; since then, he wrote more than 2,000 paranormal-themed articles. He authored more than 200 titles with over 17 million copies in print, including Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Houses; Real Encounters, Different Dimensions and Otherworldy Beings; Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds; Real Visitors, Voices from Beyond, and Parallel Dimensions; Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside; The Werewolf Book; Haunted; Conspiracies and Secret Societies; and many more. Brad was a veteran of broadcast news magazines ranging from Nightline to the NBC Nightly News, and he was also a regular radio guest on The Allan Handelman Show, Rob McConnell's X-Zone, and Coast to Coast with George Noory. He passed away in 2018.