Mysterious Times

On movie screens and bookshelves alike, zombies have been a played-out fad for several years now. But the zombie myth goes back more than a century before Night Of The Living Dead, to Haitian mythology, with possible earlier origins either from West Africa or Haiti’s indigenous Taíno people. Zombies have served as a useful metaphor from everything from slavery to consumerism to mindless conformity, but they’re also just plain scary.

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