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A zombie is a legendary undead being created through the reanimation of a cadaver, a corporeal manifestation of the revenant type. In modern popular culture, zombies often appear in horror genre works
1946 painting by Haitian artist Hector Hyppolite, of a bokor (with Baron Samedi iconography), engaged in body snatching from a cemetery in order to create zombies to serve him
The actor T. P. Cooke as Frankenstein's Monster in an 1823 stage production of the novel
George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) is considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.
Tor Johnson as a zombie with his victim in the cult movie Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
I Am Legend (novel)
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I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson. The novel inspired the modern development of zombie and vampire literature as a new genre, the narrative trope
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…of living people, is drawn largely from George A. Romero's film Night of the Living Dead (1968), which was partly inspired by Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend (1954). The word zombie is not used in Night of the Living Dead, but was applied later by fans. Following the release of such zombie films as Dawn of…
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