Zombies are 21st Century stars of the big and small screens. They have been serialized, spoofed, snuffed and ridiculed in movies like 鈥淪haun of the Dead,鈥� 鈥淶ombieland,鈥� and television shows like 鈥淭he Walking Dead.鈥� Though they are a staple of horror fiction, they also have some base in reality. In fact, zombies can be traced back to the Haitian tradition of voodoo.
Host Frank Stasio talks about zombie origins with , a professor of history and romance studies at Duke University and the co-director of the Haiti Lab at Duke鈥檚 Franklin Humanities Institute; , the head of North Carolina State University's Film Studies Program; and , a gamewriter for Ubisoft and a horror novelist.
