![]() The flesh-hungry undead have been a fixture of world mythology dating at least since The Epic of Gilgamesh, in which the goddess Ishtar promises: ![]() ![]() By 2011 the influence of zombies in popular consciousness had reached far enough that the United States government's Center for Disease Control used the idea as a theme to promote disaster preparedness. The zombie apocalypse, the civilized world brought low by a global zombie infestation, has become a staple of modern popular art. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, all drawing on European folklore of the flesh-hungry undead. Flesh-eating zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. Romero's seminal film The Night of the Living Dead to be the progenitor of these creatures. Although they share their name and some superficial similarities with the zombie from Haitian Vodun, their links to such folklore are unclear and many consider George A. ![]() They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses with a hunger for human flesh, and particularly for human brains in some depictions. Zombies are fictional undead creatures regularly encountered in horror and fantasy themed works.
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