The zombie is one of the most oversaturated horror symbols of our time, but our appetite for it is seemingly endless.

The zombie genre has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past two decades, and Alex Garland's work from 28 Days ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

Like a bad case of Rage Virus, the zombie plague is back in "28 Years Later," the tonally erratic, structurally misbegotten third entry in the long-dormant "28 Days Later" film franchise, which, ...

With that in mind and with Halloween approaching, The Washington Post asked experts in several fields to address some zombie mysteries based on what is known about human bodies and brains.