Are Zombies Real?: What Is Everyone's Fascination With The Undead (Unabridged‪)‬

Go to any movie shelf in a DVD store, book store, on demand video, and you are sure to stumble upon at least a dozen different zombie-themed offerings. 

Grotesquely rotten corpse remains, moving in staggering stuttered walks, terror inducing facial growls, hands like claws held out to catch the unwary, and strategically placed blood splotches all over their bodies - This is the common media interpretation when it comes to the modern myth of the zombie. Why are these renowned creatures so popular and sweeping in mainstream as a whole? 

Let's take a look at this undying (pun intended) urban legend! 

Chapters are: 



Where did the 'Zombie' come from? 
Where there is legend, there is conspiracy theory 
The Living Dead in popular culture-Romero's impact and the apocalypse 
The undead are big business 
Fans! Fans! Fans!