ZOMBIES ON THE L00SE - -

Sep 29, 2026

A horror-focused educational narrative about zombies, blending popular cinema with historical legend. The text introduces rotting zombies as they “come to eat your flesh,” then connects modern zombie films to early works such as White Zombie (1932) and the idea of zombies as enslaved figures. It further presents an origin-style legend involving revenants, describing how people in Europe believed the dead could return, including an account set in the year 1090 with two men seen carrying coffins and later linked to illness and deaths in an English village.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages36

Reading Time55 min

AccessFree to download

ZOMBIES ON THE L00SE

MOVIES AND LEGENDS

Why did people believe in revenants?

A ZOMBIE LEGEND

Zombies online

Index

Z0ABIESON THE L0OSE ZOMBIES ON THE L00SE u o2109 TelFa Please return on or before the latest date above. You can renew online at www.kent.gov.uk/libs or by phone 08458247200 Libraries &Archives cUSTOMER SERVICE EXCELENCE 意R1DGs警照萝UgLIC SR民 R CLASH C153681783 Copyright ◎ticktock Entertainment Ltd 2008 First published in Great Britain in 2008 by ticktock Media Ltd,2 Orchard Business Centre,North Farm Road,Tunbridge Wells,Kent,TN23XF ticktock project editor:Ruth Owen ticktock project designer:Sara Greasley ticktock picture researcher:Lizzie Knowles With thanks to series editors Honor Head and Jean Coppendale Thank you to Lorraine Petersen and the members of nasen ISBN 9781846967061 pbk Printed in China A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. No part of this publication may be reproduced,copied,stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form orby any means electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise without prior written permission ofthe copyright owner. Picture credits(t=top;b=bottom;c=centre;I=left;r=right): Dan Callister/Rex Features:31r.Nigel Catlin/FLPA:27.Corbis:11(man).John Daniels/Alamy:5r.David Fernandez epa/Corbis:10.Getty Images:15.iStock:21,22-23,29,31c.Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy:19.Darby Sawchukl Alamy:51.Shutterstock:OFC,1,2,4,8,9,11(flames),12 all,13t,13b,16-17,22 inset,311.SNAP/Rex Features:6.Norbert Wu/Minden Pictures/FLPA:24-25. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders,and we apologise in advance for any omissions.We would bepleased to insert the appropriate acknowledgments in any subsequent edition of this publication. Zombies on the loose………4Movies and legends.… …6曾A zombie legend…… ……8Voodoo zombies… … 10Making a zombie…… …12Zombie slaves………………14Escape from the spell……16Felicia-the zombie… …18"I was a zombie“…… …20Don't be a zombie………22Are zombies real?…………24More zombie science….…26Felicia-the truth…… …28Need to know words…… 30Zombie spotter's guide/ CONTENTS Zombies online……………31Index………… ……32 # ZOMBIES ON THE L00SE You watch in horror ashalf rotted creatureswalk towards you. They moan.They groan. These horrifying creaturesare Zombies. They are coming to eatyour flesh... ② 5 MOVIES AND LEGENDS In modern horror movies,rotting zombiesclimb out of their graves.They hunt andkill people to eat their flesh. The first zombie movie was made in 1932. I was called White Zombie.In this movie,a factoryowner uses zombies as slaves. Zombies don't just appear in movies.There are old legends about zombies,too. Hundreds of years ago,people in Europe believedin zombies.These zombies were known as revenants. People believed revenants climbed out of theirgraves to seek revenge on their enemies. # Why did people believe in revenants? Perhaps,because hundreds of years ago,peoplewere sometimes buried alive by accident.If theywoke up,it seemed that they had come backfrom the dead. # A ZOMBIE LEGEND In the year 1090,two men died inan English village.The men wereburied in the village graveyard. That night,at midnight,the men were seenwalking over the hills.They were carrying theircoffins on their backs The men had become revenants! People in the village started to fall ill anddie.The revenants were killing them.

FAQs

What role do modern horror movies play in the book’s explanation of zombies?

The text states that in modern horror movies, rotting zombies climb out of graves, hunt people, and kill them to eat their flesh.

Why did people in the past believe in revenants?

It suggests people believed revenants because some individuals were sometimes buried alive by accident and, if they woke up, seemed to have returned from the dead.

What happened in the English village in the year 1090 legend?

Two men died and were buried in the village graveyard, but at midnight they were seen walking over the hills carrying their coffins. The revenants were then said to make people in the village fall ill and die.

Sep 29, 2026

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