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Zombies, he tells us, are real, not some figment of the collective Haitian imagination but men and women who have died (or rather who appear to have died), been buried, then brought back to life to pass the rest of their days as imbecile slaves.

We’re talking real imaginary zombies—the voodoo kind, not the braiiiins kind. Mischa Berlinski tells the tale in the September issue of Men’s Journal.