When Did Zombies Start Eating Brains?

When Did Zombies Start Eating Brains?

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One of my kids is obsessed with zombies (or “yombies” as he adorably calls them). I used to tell him and his brother these Halloween poems for kids, one of which was called Daddy is a Zombie, and that one seemed to stick. Once, I told them the events of Night of the Living Dead when they asked me to tell them a scary story, and I was too tired to think of anything original. Again, it made an impression, as the kid will occasionally say, “Tell us about the yombies in the big house!”

Coincidentally enough, the kid also loves superheroes, and has covered his eyes whenever we fire up the TV to see an ad on our landing page for the new Marvel Zombies show or movie or whatever it is. I g