Orem Library

In these pages, readers will learn the legendary origins of the living dead, including the development of zombie tales in Haitian folklore and how those tales made it back to the United States--where Hollywood quickly took over.

Celebrates zombie pop culture that has evolved since "Night of the Living Dead," tracing early mythological origins in African folklore and Haitian voodoo as well as modern incarnations in film, literature, and video gaming.

The polluted wine produced for a village's annual Grape Harvest Festival has left all but a few rabid with some chemically- engendered form of zombiism. They may saunter about like sleepwalkers, but these are not the zombies of George A. Romero's Night of the living dead (1968); they are, rather, oozing transmitters of an impassioned insanity that can only be termed anarchy. It seems an odd boast to make for one title in a plentiful filmography devoted...

After a worker at a medical supply house accidentally releases a toxic gas, the dead reanimate and rise from their graves.

"After defeating the Demogorgon, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Will struggle to adjust back to normal life, but just when their friendships begin to crack, new kid Joey Kim helps them come to terms with the supernatural horrors they experienced by making a zombie movie."--Provided by publisher.

Wealthy plantation owner Charles Beaumont turns to Voodoo Master Murder Legendre to lure the woman he loves, Madeline Short, away from her fiance, Neil Parker, by turning her into a zombie. Murder's intentions are to keep Madeline for himself. Neil seeks out Murder Legendre to break the zombie spell and return Madeline to the world of the living.

A hapless young man's overbearing mother gets him into a heap of trouble when she catches a bizarre zombie virus and starts turning innocent passersby into walking corpses.

Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation with two simple objectives: retrieve and survive. When his team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best, or worst, of human nature prevails in the direst of circumstances.

Zach is devastated after his girlfriend Beth dies unexpectedly. After Beth suddenly and mysteriously returns to life, Zach is overjoyed to have the second chance to prove his love for her. But when Beth starts developing some bizarre tendencies, including a rather disturbing taste for flesh, Zach has to confront facts. Can love survive among the living dead?

[Indestructible man]: Scientist is able to return from the dead a fabled, just executed criminal, Butcher Benton who goes on to seek revenge against his shyster lawyer and others. [The amazing transparent man]: A mad scientist makes a convict invisible to steal radioactive materials for him, but the subject is more interested in testing his new power on a nearby bank.