Zombies From History by Geoff Holder

Zombies From History by Geoff Holder is everything the fully prepared and thoughtful zombie hunter needs to know.  Published Oct 2013, £9.99, this paperback original contains the secrets of sixty high-value targets from Britain’s illustrious (and ignoble) past.

The Walking Dead. Walkers. Biters. Eaters. The Infected. The Contaminated. The Re-animated. Revenants. The Living Dead. Whatever you want to call them, the zombie apocalypse is coming. You know it, I know it.

Contemporary zombie culture did not start with The Night of the Living Dead. The dead have been returning for centuries. History is peppered with accounts of those who were declared dead but yet lived; those who survived the hangman’s noose or were buried alive; and descriptions of bog bodies, preserved corpses and mummified remains.

So, faced with the inevitable, what do you do? Do you wait until that dull bloke from No.37 is lurching through the French windows? Or do you step up, take some pride in your actions, and take out some of history’s big guns before you are finally eaten? Would you itch to take on one of the grandees of nineteenth-century literature, or test yourself against an axe-wielding medieval bampot? Wrestle with Nelson? Battle with Boudica? Then here, friend, is your opportunity. Where they are buried, what wounds and weaknesses they bear, height, age, difficulty level – everything the fully prepared and thoughtful zombie hunter needs to know.

• The secrets of sixty high-value targets from Britain’s illustrious (and ignoble) past. The good and the great mix with famous criminals, rebels and pirates.
• Juicy bits of folklore, tall tales and unlikely legends concerning the walking dead.  
• Fact files on the undead in history, including Roman Revenants, people who were Buried Alive and some   Resurrected Royal Corpses!
• High profile targets including Jane Austen,  Henry VIII, Richard III and William Shakespeare.
• With full zombie-hunting details – no apocalyptic history lover should leave home without it!

Geoff Holder has more than twenty books on the paranormal to his name, and gives talks at the Ghost Club and other well-known societies throughout the year.  He has just moved to a     farmhouse in the French countryside, but makes regular trips back to the UK for signings and talks.