White Plague (F. Herbert) 88
White Zombie film 59
wildfires 157–8
Williams, William Mattieu 135
Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence) 96
World of Warcraft series video games 175
World War Z: An Oral History (M. Brooks) 72
World War Z film 56
Wulfstan, Bishop of London 52
Y
Yucatán Peninsula asteroid hit 127–8
Z
Zeus 27–9
Zika virus 85
zombie apocalypse 55–7
alternative names in fiction 57–8
bodily and mental decay 73–7
caused by humans 70–1
characteristics in popular culture 61–2
comedy 66–7
consumerism/capitalism 64–5, 67–70
decay of society 69–72
loneliness and grief 72–3
personification of disease/plague 62–3
slavery and racial discrimination 59–61
survival guides 56
vampire comparison 63–4
Zombies (R. Luckhurst) 65
Zone One (C. Whitehead) 58
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