ZEITGEIST ZOMBIES
The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, World War Z, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead… I could keep going but I think you get the gist.
Zombies are everywhere in fiction, from movies to TV shows, video games to books.
These stories are usually pretty hand-wavey about the actual science that has turned humans into mindless, shambling, killing machines, but you might be surprised to know that there are actually some pretty gruesome examples of zombification in real life.
If you can stomach it, come with me on a tour into the lives of parasitic wasps, worms, single-celled organisms, fungi, viruses – and even into our own brains.
Horror authors and script writers, listen closely – because we all know that some of the scariest stories are the ones rooted in reality.
