Zombie CSU (68 page)
C
HAD
M
ICHAEL
W
ARD
, director, photographer, and artist, has spent the last decade entertaining audiences with his dark, and oft times erotic, horror art. His work has been featured in dozens of publications around the world including
NME
,
Skin Two
,
Aphrodesia
,
Spectrum
,
Gothic Beauty
,
Tattoo Savage
,
Carpe Noctem
,
Club International
,
Gallery
,
Pit
,
Dark Realms
, and
The Third Alternative
and is frequently commissioned by musicians such as Marilyn Manson, The Cruxshadows, Fear Factory, Collide, The Blank Theory, Soilwork, Pissing Razors, Naglfar, and Darkane. His work can be found at www.digitalapocalypse.com.
J
OHN
C. W
ORSLEY
was born in 1978 in Sacramento, California, but has spent the last twenty-two years in comically idyllic Portland, Oregon. Since 2003 John has been self-employed as a minimum-time programmer/over-time illustrator, self-publishing comics such as the science fiction neomythological
Painkillers
, and the contemporary horror comic
Dead Valentines
. He has also contributed illustrations to games such as Iron Realms’
Achaea
, Pinnacle’s
Deadlands: Reloaded
, and Wizkids’
Pirates of the Spanish Main
. Staying generally active in the miniature comics mecca that is the Portland comics scene, he is also the maintainer of Shannon Wheeler’s Too Much Coffee Man website and the Stumptown Comics Fest. Website: www.openvein.com. Contact him at [email protected].
PART 1
- A Crimson Head
- David J. Schow’s “Jerry’s Kids Meet Wormboy”
- Draugr
- An orb above the earth’s South Pole made up of worms
- The Rising
by Brian Keene
PART 2
- “Re: Your Brains”
- Tom Savini—he played a zombie named Blades (or Machete Zombie) in both
Dawn of the Dead
and
Land of the Dead
. - “Trojan, Ramses, Magnum, Sheik!”
- Stacy
- Captain America
PART 3
- The conflicts in Northern Ireland known as “The Troubles.”
- King of the Zombies
- Braindead
- C.
- C.
Art of the Dead—Lori Ann McAdam
Zombie Geisha
“
Night of the Living Dead
is definitely the foundation of zombie pop culture. My grandmother even remembers being scared out of her wits, how could you not love that thought?”
J
ONATHAN
M
ABERRY
is the multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author of the Pine Deep Trilogy (
Ghost Road Blues
,
Dead Man’s Song
, and
Bad Moon Rising
),
Vampire Universe
, and
The Cryptopedia
. He is a motivational speaker, writing teacher, and lecturer. Jonathan is cofounder of the Writers Corner USA, a writers education center in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; a speaker for the National Writers Union; and a writing mentor for the Mystery Writers of America and the Horror Writers Association. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Sara, and son, Sam. Visit Jonathan on the web at www.jonathanmaberry.com and www.myspace.com/jonathan_maberry; and for more on zombies, go to www.zombiecsu.com.
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1.
John Russo cowrote the screenplay and has been active in zombie pop culture ever since.
1.
Translation courtesy of Dr. Van Nguyen, formerly of Temple University.
2.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
, 1985, Simon & Schuster;
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haltian Zombie
, 1988, The University of North Carolina Press
3.
Vodoun is the correct name for the religion known popularly as voodoo. Also known as vudu, Vodon, Voudou, Vodu. The word
Voodoo
is considered offensive to the practitioners of that faith, largely due to the way it has been portrayed by Western culture in film, literature, etc.
4.
Tetrodotoxin (unhydrotetrodotaxin 4-epitetrodotaxin, tetrodonic acid or TTX) is a potent neurotoxin.
5.
World War Z
by Max Brooks, published by Crown Books in 2006.
6.
Shape-shifting, or theriomorphy, is a common trait of many folkloric monsters including vampires and werewolves.
7.
There are a few exceptions to this, notably the creatures from the Dan O’Bannon
Return of the Living Dead
series of films who not only possess the power of speech but are also gourmets rather than gourmands—they only eat brains, eschewing the rest of the body.
8.
Based on a story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier (
The Birds and Other Short Stories
, 1963).
9.
During the scripting and production phase the movie was known as
Night of the Flesh Eaters
and
Night of Anubis
.
10.
Macumba is also the name of a Bantu deity and a Bantu word for musical instrument. When used to refer to vodoun, it is only used by nonpractitioners of that faith, suggesting that Peter is merely quoting his grandfather but not endorsing a point of view.
11.
Published 1983 by Dodd Mead and Company.
12.
Another sure sign of the apocalypse.
13.
For more on the
Resident Evil
films, see Chapter 11.
14.
Michael Tolkin and Scott Frank contributed to the screenplay for
Dawn of the Dead
.
15.
The original title, according to Romero’s script, was
Dawn of the Living Dead
.
16.
His fifth film,
Diary of the Dead
, does not continue this “future history,” but instead jumps back to tell another story that occurs at the same time as
Night of the Living Dead
.
1.
Though in
Night of the Living Dead
the zombies certainly appeared to be frightened of fire; so fear, at least on a very basic level, may be a factor.
2.
The Rising
(2004) and
City of the Dead
(2005), Leisure Books;
Dead City
(2006) Pinnacle Books;
Dying 2 Live
, Permuted Press;
The Cell
, Scribner.
3.
The name of this division may vary from one jurisdiction to another.
4.
If the crime scene is indoors, officers generally leave the AC or heat on, windows open or closed, etc. to preserve the condition of the scene as it was during the incident; lights, however, are turned on, but the condition of the lights are generally noted before changes are made.
5.
In cases of a single-officer car as the first responder, this officer may serve as a point officer, or an officer from the next-in car may take this job.
6.
Adapted from the article “Increasing Crime Scene Integrity by Creating Multiple Security Levels” by Greg Dagnan, and reprinted with the author’s permission from his website. For the complete article, go to www.crimescene-investigator.net/MultilevelContainment.html.
7.
The incident occurred in Leary, Georgia, on the evening of January 6, 1969, and was reported to NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena), a now-defunct civilian organization.
8.
To view the news clip, go to www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/12/fringe/turkey.monster.
9.
Fort Apache, the Bronx
(1981).
10.
The New Centurions
(1972).
11.
If zombies are dead or, as some of our medical experts theorize, working on a reduced metabolism, their body temperature may be so low that thermal scans may either miss them or get confused readings.
12.
Not to be confused with SERT, which is a regional version of SWAT.
13.
For more on K-9 cops, see Chapter 5.
14.
For more on the force continuum, see Chapter 5.
1.
Dental Identification and Forensic Odontology,
published by Klimpton, 1976.
2.
Gregg Winkler writes for www.horrorweb.com.
3.
Generally the most serious wounds are photographed at the hospital since emergency medical treatment at the scene of the crime naturally prohibits the taking of such pictures.
4.
Andrea Campbell is the author of
Detective Notebook: Crime Scene Science
(Sterling, 2004) and
Forensic Science: Evidence, Clues, and Investigation
(Chelsea House Publications, 1999).