all+about+zombies

A **zombie** is a creature that appears in books and popular culture typically as a reanimated dead or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the [|Afro-Caribbean] spiritual belief system of [|Voodoo], which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful wizard. Zombies became a [|popular device] in modern [|horror fiction], largely because of the success of [|George A. Romero]'s 1968 film //[|Night of the Living Dead]//.[|[1]]