1. Understanding the Zombie
A unit on the living dead!

2. A word on Lore
“Zombie” is a term coming from the practice of Voodoo, referring to another human being controlled through magic and ritual.
The popular concept of the Zombie however, comes from the medieval concept of the Revenant, which is a reanimated form hell-bent on consuming the their loved ones.
The Voodoo concept is puppet like, while the medieval one is ghoulish.

3. So what’s the difference?
Every variant of the zombie has its own variation on the creature’s “rules.”
A popular distinction is between the “Romero” type and the “Rage Virus” types.
Causes typically between magic and virus or bacteria.

4. A look at varieties: Voodoo: A victim of “Zombie Powder,” neurotoxin
Controlled humans
Capable of displaying emotion and thought
Capable of Feeling pain, recognizing danger
Lack supersenses
Can be controlled
Capable of Communication
From sub-Saharan and Caribbean lore, Voodoo practices in “Bayou” areas of United States.

5. The Romero Type Slow Reanimated Corpses Stupid Dangerous in Numbers
As seen in “Night of the Living Dead,” Virus varients seen in “Resident Evil,” “Shaun of the Dead, World War Z.

6. The Rage Virus Type Fast and powerful Popularized by “28 Days Later”
Possibly capable of thought or communication
Variants seen in “Left 4 Dead,” “Zombieland,”

7. The Mutant or Parasite
Zombies, as a transgression between our ideas of life and death are to some degrees, already mutants, but some versions of the lore take this farther, turning them into new kinds of monsters entirely.

8. What we’ll be looking at: The Brooks Zombie
Bacteria born, but with behavior like a Romero zombie.
Reanimated bodies
Dangerous in numbers
Have super senses despite their state of decomposition.
Can be seen as a “mutant” type, though not entirely

9. In Brooks:
We see an example of “In Universe” writing with his Zombie Survival Guide which is presented to us as a text from Brooks’ world. This presentation implies that we, the readers, are a part of the stories reality
What does this interactivity do for the “scariness” of Brooks lore?