Goodreads asked Jim Cherry:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jim Cherry I just finished a short story "The Captured Dead" and I got the idea when I was reading a book on the making of the John Ford/John Wayne movie "The Searchers". It was based on a true story that happened in the 1940's and a small section was a tale a Native American shaman using the Ghost Dance to bring back the dead to help them against the U.S. Army. I was looking to write a zombie story (because we all know zombies are 'in') but it didn't work out the way I thought but works much better as a ghost story.

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