How to make a zombie : the real life (and death) science of reanimation and mind control / Frank Swain.

London : Oneworld Publications, 2013.

xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-241) and index.

Recipe for a zombie -- Dead men working the fields. Pursuit of the flesh ; Nail in the coffin ; The professor and the bogeyman ; The big sleep ; A deathly state of mind -- Time for a revival. Reprieve from death ; The spark of life ; The dead Russians are coming ; The second coming of Lazarus ; Dr Ivie's healing fists ; Adventures in necronautics ; Emtombed in blue -- Mickey Finn and other thugs. Rotting brains ; Acid spies and secret highs ; Recruited, body and soul ; Pusher ; Mind over matter -- Remote/control. All in the brains ; Cut to the asylum ; Excising the soul ; The joy machine ; Constructing a psycho-civilized society -- The ghoulish nanny. Living larder ; Parasite puppeteers ; Thinking caps ; The knot of the problem ; Your body is a battleground -- Army of bloodsuckers. Sealed with a kiss ; Bad air in the doldrums ; Infected with rage ; A fatal game of cat and mouse ; Programmed to kill -- The human harvest. That good-for-something zombie ; In cold blood ; Butcher, faker, breast implant maker ; Lettuce heads and artichoke hearts ; Happy endings ; Dining with the dead -- Here and now.