Matias Nicolas
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Jonathan Maberry:
Hello sir. I bought the Vampire Slayer¿s Field Guide and Vampire Universe, and are great material for learning abouth that creatures. My favourite is the japanese equivalent for the modern zombie, the gashadokuro. And, what is your opinion abouth calling the Romero´s monsters as zombies? Because they are much connected to the vampires than the haitian slaves.
Jonathan Maberry
It was the Italian film distributors who hung the word 'zombie' on George Romero's flesh-eating ghouls. He disagreed with it because they were in no way tied to the voodoo religion of Haiti. But no amount of effort on his part --and others-- has managed to remove the nickname and at this point we're stuck with it.
In my nonfiction book, ZOMBIE CSU: THE FORENSIC SCIENCE OF THE LIVING DEAD, I interviewed ethnobotanist, Dr. Wade Davis, the expert who determined the chemical composition of the 'corpse powder' given to create the Haitian zombie (detailed in his book, THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW), and he laid out the differences between Haitian zombies and the flesh-eaters of Romero's world
In my nonfiction book, ZOMBIE CSU: THE FORENSIC SCIENCE OF THE LIVING DEAD, I interviewed ethnobotanist, Dr. Wade Davis, the expert who determined the chemical composition of the 'corpse powder' given to create the Haitian zombie (detailed in his book, THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW), and he laid out the differences between Haitian zombies and the flesh-eaters of Romero's world
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