Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and force them to do things against their will, with the goal of spreading the ...

Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them. She’s read up on the fungi that take over flies’ bodies, partially digesting them ...

The undead monsters we know from movies and TV are distortions of a figure with roots in the religious practices of Haiti. By Farah Nayeri Reporting from Paris One of Amazon’s best-selling Halloween ...