Martin’s zombies are forced to toil on after ‘death’ for their overseers or controllers. They are not truly dead, but rather are created through medical and technological means rather than magical means as the zombies of Haitian origin. These poor souls have their brains removed and replaced by a synthetic substitute resulting in a shell with no soul to drive it. That function is fulfilled by their fully living human controllers (Martin, 2008).
In this regard, the story is more of a tale of zombies than of the undead. The ‘corpses’ of this story are not truly physically dead as much as they are brain dead. They have no will of their own like the zombies of Haitian legend. The ‘corpse handlers’ are much like the witch doctors of these same stories.
In this regard, the story is more of a tale of zombies than of the undead. The ‘corpses’ of this story are not truly physically dead as much as they are brain dead. They have no will of their own like the zombies of Haitian legend. The ‘corpse handlers’ are much like the witch doctors of these same stories.