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1920s
and early 1930s
In the 1920s and early 1930s, the American horror
author H. P. Lovecraft wrote several stories that
explored the zombie or undead theme from different
angles. "Cool Air", "In the Vault" (which includes
perhaps the first recorded character bitten by a
zombie), "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Outsider" and
"Pickman's Model" are all undead or zombie-related, but
the most definitive zombie story in Lovecraft's oeuvre
was 1921's Herbert West-Reanimator, which "helped define
zombies in popular culture".
This Frankenstein-inspired
series featured Herbert West, a mad scientist who
attempts to revive human corpses with mixed results.
Notably, the resurrected dead are uncontrollable, mostly
mute, primitive and extremely violent; though they are
not referred to as zombies, their portrayal was
prescient, anticipating the modern conception of zombies
by several decades.
Zombies - Voodoo zombie themes
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