It’s generally accepted that horror’s iconic monsters have a long and colorful literary history. The ghost and vampire, for example, both trace their heritage back to distinguished works of fiction from the nineteenth century and earlier
…oming down the road alone, walking with the same dragging lifelessness as did the others, was another of the grey toilers. And, as the man turned the wide sweep in the road that would lead him to the house and beyond Tony’s vision, Tony glimpsed in the last yellow rays of the setting sun, the horror that had once been his face!
Had once been his face! For, beneath the ridge of his nose downward, the man had no face! The vertebrae whiteness of his spine, naked save for ragged strings of desiccated flesh, extended his horrid starkness from the throat of his shirt to merge with the shattered base of his bony skull!
With such images of physical decay, who cared that McCluskey’s story was virtually without plot and his shocking revelation of the zombies patently obvious from the opening paragraphs?
The zombie was not the exclusive property of Weird Tales during the pulp era. Most of the weird fiction and fantasy magazines produced at least one zombie tale during their brief runs, but these were remarkable only…
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