Reading the Great American Zombie

T. May Stone teaches literature and composition classes at Eastern New Mexico University–Roswell.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyviiiPreface: I, MillennialIntroduction: Zombie OntologyOne. From the Islands to the States, from the Nineteenth Century to the TwentiethTwo. Zombies in Pulp Fiction: Scary Stories to Tell Scientific MaterialistsThree. Estrangement Among the “Community of Self”Four. Tech Zombies: Zombified Art, Zombified MassesFive. Present Absence: Reality and the Future of HumanityConclusion. Zombies Never Die: A Look at Some of the Most Persistent ZombiesChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“With Reading the Great American Zombie, Stone dives deep into the surprisingly complex history of zombie literature, unearthing some forgotten or overlooked texts and stories and asking us to reconsider what the ‘living dead’ are or can be.”—Kyle Bishop, author of The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie