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Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields

Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields

Seabrook, W. B.

Paperback

Horror

ISBN10: 1447404165
ISBN13: 9781447404163
Publisher: Pierides Press
Published: May 4 2011
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The chapter that first carried the word zombie into the English-speaking world: W. B. Seabrook's electrifying account of Haitian Vodou and the labouring undead of the sugar plantations.

Taken from The Magic Island (1929), the sensational travelogue that made W. B. Seabrook famous, this piece records his encounters in rural Haiti with the belief in reanimated corpses set to toil in the fields. Seabrook (1884 - 1945), an American journalist and adventurer with a taste for the extreme, blends reportage, folklore, and unease into a document that shaped a century of horror. Whatever the truth behind the tales he was told, this is the source to which almost every later zombie can be traced.

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