A history of the zombie, tracing its rise from folklore and superstition to its roles in films, TV, video games and graphic novels today. New in paperback.

Roger Luckhurst lives in a postwar utopian social housing estate in inner London and teaches at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is professor of modern literature in the School of Arts. He is the author of Zombies, also published by Reaktion Books, and wrote the British Film Institute Classics books on Alien and The Shining.