ZOMBIE LUV

When you become an author known for writing zombies, you better start loving the gross, brain-munching creatures like A LOT. And I do!

Zombies have become the new vampire, with the craze that is THE WALKING DEAD (love, love, love), movies like WORLD WAR Z (which I totally plan to see) and WARM BODIES (totally love). And let's not even mention ALL the new zombie video games out there that people can't wait to get their hands on.

It's a huge phenomenon. But why? Why are we so fascinated with the undead?

Perhaps, Mansfield University Professor of English Dr. John Ulrich who studies pop culture and teaches a course in monster literature, says it best:

"Zombies are the flip side of the culture's obsession with youth, beauty and sex," Ulrich answers.

"Vampires feed off of that obsession. Zombies undermine and subvert it. The zombie aesthetic is an anti-aesthetic, the negation of beauty and youthfulness. Zombies force us to confront the naked truth about our lives: the relentless process of aging, our slow amble toward death and decay." I asked him why zombies move in groups. He said the zombie tendency to swarm is related to the tradition of B-grade horror films about nature gone awry -- birds, bees, spiders, bats, ants, rats, piranhas, etc., overwhelming their human victims.

"Swarms of flesh-eating zombies, however, have the unique ability to convert their victims into more flesh-eating zombies," Ulrich added. "Monstrous consumption generates even more monstrous consumption, on a global scale. This is Zombie Economics 101. And this economic model is, of course, unsustainable. The fear of zombies, in this respect, is the fear of ourselves, of our inability to reverse, or even slow down, our voracious appetite for consumption.

"We are both the zombie swarm and its hapless victim."

Whatever the reason, I love them, and a whole lot of people can't get enough. Zombies have been around since the 1920's and I have a feeling they're here to stay.

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