Latest from Scott Kenemore Purportedly Digs Into Abuse of Zombies by Nazis
Author and alleged ‘Zombie expert’ Scott Kenemore has kept busy over the last few years putting out books about Zombies. Well, kind of, anyway.
He’s most famous for ‘The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead’, one of the first books I actually bought for the ZRC. Longtime readers may be aware that it’s never been reviewed… and there’s a reason for that.
‘Zen’ is a self-help book that is supposed to guide the reader through a course of self-improvement by modeling one’s behavior on Zombies, or rather, the stereotypes thereof. It’s not Zombie Friendly but in an odd way it tries to focus on the bright side of said stereotypes. The issue is: it’s not a satire of a self-help book; it really IS a self-help book. Too close to home for me; I tried a couple of times but couldn’t slog through.
I may have to try one last time, as Kenemore’s new book supposedly looks into the long-alleged misuse and abuse of Zombies by the Third Reich.
Unfortunately doing so from a viciously Anti-Zombie perspective:
Get the inside scoop on historical events as the Nazis:
Harness the power of Haitian Voodoo spirits to create zombies. If you learn anything from these documents, please let it be: Don’t try this at home!
Encounter the deformed, mass-murdering automatons as they turn against their masters. Did you really think you could control a zombie? Regardless of your credentials, they will eat you.
Finally determine how to kill a zombie—or rather, return it to the state of ordinary, inert corpse which won’t flaunt its decaying flesh in your face.
And much, much more!
So let me get this straight; when the Nazis experimented on using the occult to create an Undead army, it blew up in their face and the Zombies killed them, but acted like Romero-esque Zombie stereotypes in the process despite being of occult origin?
Why would this be a bad thing, by the way? If some dedicated Undead individuals ate a few Nazis in World War II, I for one think they should have gotten medals and a ticker tape parade, not to mention some antacid.
I have more than a few doubts about the veracity of the original history supposedly harnessed and unearthed to create this relatively slender tome; why has this history gone unremarked until now? Where did these documents sit for decades until being uncovered?
The description of the provenance of this information from Amazon is more than a little fishy:
Zombie expert Scott Kenemore (The Zen of Zombie) unearths a collection of top-secret lost documents from WWII (originally intercepted by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1941 and presented to Franklin Roosevelt in a confidential memorandum), describing efforts of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (or SD) to harness and weaponize Haitian Voodoo and zombie-creating technologies for military purposes. For the first time, here is the thrilling, humorous, and satisfyingly-gory story of an evil empire’s foolhardy attempt to harness an ancient and unspeakable monster: the zombie!
While the Nazis initially dream of creating an army of bloodthirsty, automaton super-zombies to march across Europe, they soon learn that the walking dead are not as obedient and malleable as they’ve been led to believe. In contrast, these Nazi agents quickly find that the walking dead of the Haitian backwoods are closer to brain-eating, flesh-rending dynamos that don’t respect a nicely pressed SS uniform, and instead just go for the jugular. Faced with Voodoo spells, dangerous flora and fauna, and their own naive assumptions about the dark forces with which they’re tangling, these Nazi SD agents learn the hard way that nobody bosses around a zombie.
Does anyone else get a whiff of UFO ‘secret history’ books on this one? Color me very skeptical.
At any rate, ‘Zombies vs. Nazis: A Lost History of the Walking Undead’ (or is it ‘Long History’? The cover art differs from the given title) comes out August 1st, so stay tuned.
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