Don’t Open! Zombies Inside!

Written by Joel Brown 

It’s that decomposing time of year! Amid brown leaves and rotting pumpkins, reanimated corpses feasting on human flesh are once again the toast of the town.

We’re talking zombies, the horror fan’s favorite flash mob, popping up on screens everywhere, in graphic novels and death metal songs, and, ding-dong, even on your front doorstep demanding trick-or-treat candy.

The zombie “is a thing just full of desire. It is pure mouth, right?” says Boston University’s Maia Gil’Adí, a specialist in Latinx literature and culture—and in horror and violence in fiction. “It is all consumption. It reproduces itself in its own image. It’s kind of godlike in a way. It’s making itself over and over again, by consuming its own kind.”

To read more about the zombie archive and Professor Gil’Adi’s passion for the macabre Click here!