ROCKING THE ROT
Demystifying Decay in the Undead
With a fondness that the
uninitiated have difficulty fathoming, we fans of the undead often find
ourselves referring to the zombie scourge as rotters. But the use of such an
epithet belies a systemic lapse by contributors to the literature: our rotters
don't rot. At least, not in ways that adhere to the natural processes of decay.
Putting aside arguments of
suspension of disbelief (after all, we're talking reanimation here!), it's
understandable that writers in the genre generally eschew the technical
minutiae of decay in their
