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First edition cover of The Magic Island One book to expose more recent western culture to the concept of the zombie was The Magic Island by W.B. Seabrook in 1929. Island is the sensationalized account of a narrator in Haitiwho encounters voodoo cults and their resurrected thralls. Time claimed that the book “introduced ‘zombi’ into U.S. speech”.[5] —Wikipedia

First edition cover of The Magic Island

One book to expose more recent western culture to the concept of the zombie was The Magic Island by W.B. Seabrook in 1929. Island is the sensationalized account of a narrator in Haitiwho encounters voodoo cults and their resurrected thralls. Time claimed that the book “introduced ‘zombi’ into U.S. speech”.[5]
—Wikipedia
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