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Zombies of The Magic Island

Aussi appelé: zonbi
LivresMort-vivantSorcellerie1900 à 1967

William Seabrook's 1929 account of Haiti is the book that carried the word zombie into American popular culture. He described the zombie as a dead body made to walk and work by sorcery, with no will of its own. Hollywood's first zombie film followed within three years, built directly on the interest the book created.12

⚔️ L'affronter
Première apparition
1929
Published 3 January 1929
Œuvre d'origine
The Magic Island (1929)
William Seabrook
Fabriqué en
États-Unis
Ce qui le provoque
Sorcellerie
Seabrook reported the Haitian belief that a corpse can be given a mechanical imitation of life by sorcery; a later suggestion on the page is that coma-inducing drugs could explain the accounts.

Quand est-il apparu pour la première fois ?

Monde antique
Moyen Âge
1500 à 1899
1900 à 1967
1968 à 1999
2000 à 2009
2010 à aujourd'hui
1929

Published 3 January 1929

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

1

A non-fiction travel book based on Seabrook's stay in Haiti, illustrated by Alexander King12

2

The word comes from Haitian Creole zonbi12

3

Considered the first popular English-language work to describe zombies as the living dead12

4

It inspired the 1932 stage play Zombie and the film White Zombie12

5

Seabrook turned down a 15,000-dollar serialisation offer when he learned the text would be altered12

6

A 2016 Dover reprint carries an introduction by George A. Romero12

Sources

  1. The Magic Island - Wikipedia
  2. White Zombie (film) - Wikipedia

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