num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema
titlecomplete: Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema
genres: Cultural, Film, Media Tie In, Reference, Zombies, Horror, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 503
publisher: FAB Press