That’s not the real question. The real question is “What is a zombie to you, the author?” That’s important because we can’t know what every reader out there thinks about these transformed humans; we don’t know whether they see the zombie as symbolic in some way, or just as monsters, created by some corporate giant, a pharmaceutical lab or a diabolical villain. … or the earth itself. To me, zombies are just fictional creatures. Monsters. No different than the Creature from