
People in the past believed that even in death a body
retained some vital force, and that the dead could rise
from the grave to cause havoc among the living. Why did
they believe this? What powers did they believe the
dead had? And what did they do about it?
Tony's journey takes him on a fascinating and sometimes
humorous tour of some of the darkest recesses of the
ancient mind, and brings him face to face with a
plague-breathing zombie, a dead body that seems alive
three weeks after it died, and the English monarchs who
ate the bodies of their subjects.