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Zombies of The Magic Island

A tún ń pè é ní: zonbi

William Seabrook's 1929 account of Haiti is the book that carried the word zombie into American popular culture. He described the zombie as a dead body made to walk and work by sorcery, with no will of its own. Hollywood's first zombie film followed within three years, built directly on the interest the book created.12

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tó farahàn
1929
Published 3 January 1929
Iṣẹ́ orísun
The Magic Island (1929)
William Seabrook
A ṣe ní
Amẹ́ríkà
Ohun tó fà á
Oṣó
Seabrook reported the Haitian belief that a corpse can be given a mechanical imitation of life by sorcery; a later suggestion on the page is that coma-inducing drugs could explain the accounts.
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Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

1

A non-fiction travel book based on Seabrook's stay in Haiti, illustrated by Alexander King12

2

The word comes from Haitian Creole zonbi12

3

Considered the first popular English-language work to describe zombies as the living dead12

4

It inspired the 1932 stage play Zombie and the film White Zombie12

5

Seabrook turned down a 15,000-dollar serialisation offer when he learned the text would be altered12

6

A 2016 Dover reprint carries an introduction by George A. Romero12

Àwọn orísun

  1. The Magic Island - Wikipedia
  2. White Zombie (film) - Wikipedia

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