Weird News: Scientists Speculate on Zombie Attack
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Zombies usually pass outside the genre of weird literature. Diseased, flesh-eating corpses aren't terribly weird on the surface of things, and they are often difficult to use in the subtle, artistic manner that, in my opinion, raises the weird an artistic grade above the rest of today's horror. There are notable exceptions, of course, like Thomas Ligotti's "Drink to Me Only With Labyrinthine Eyes," which dizzies us with a zombie-like revenant manipulated (in more ways than one) by hypnosis.
Still, it's impossible to resist posting the article below. Any reasonable person would agree our world would become very weird, very fast should science or nature release an infectious plague on humanity that mimics the zombie traits of note in recent films. The news is also a fascinating instance of fictional horror so thoroughly creeping into the recesses of our "what if" mechanism that it demands serious scientific inquiry.
