It’s a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century.Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses fromrising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return frombattlefields, medieval physicians worried that bodies would rise from plaguepits, many cultures buried the dead at crossroads to prevent the dead fromwalking.
In Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, editor Steve Berman hascollected stories that reveal the threat of revenants and the living dead is farfrom recent. From the Bronze Age to World War II, this anthology guides usthrough millennia of thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreakedthroughout history by the walking dead.