Arkansas is crawling with zombies.
In The Walking Dead comic book and TV series, the character Caesar Ramon Martinez is a former gym teacher from Arkansas. And here's where to find some of the Natural State's other most unnatural citizens:
• The Hot Springs International Horror Film Festival, Sept. 17-20 at the Central Theater, downtown Hot Springs.
Night of Horror with The Rocky Horror Picture Show is planned for Sept. 12. Theater of Horror, a combination movie, stage play and haunted attraction, will be Sept. 24-Nov. 1.
All in all, "I just betcha we'll have a lot of zombies," festival organizer Tamara Glynn says. More information is available at hotspringshorrorfilmfestival.com.
• The Arkansas Zombie Challenge, Oct. 10, in Hector, is an obstacle race in which the contestants dodge zombies in support of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in Russellville. More information is available at arkansaszombiechallenge.wordpress.com, or by calling (479) 880-1195.
• Eureka Springs Zombie Crawl and Day of the the Dead Celebration, Nov. 1, promises a slow and shambling procession of zombies, hearses and Halloween floats through downtown, benefitting Flint Street Food Bank. More information is available at eurekaspringszombiecrawl.com or by calling (479) 253-7333.
• Zombies force civilization to its last stand in Arkansas in Little Rock author John Hornor Jacobs' novel This Dark Earth (2012). Human survivors brace for the siege in Bridge City, a fortress spanning the Arkansas River.
• A zombified college professor retains self-awareness, enabling him to write about what it is like to be a zombie, in Arkansas novelist Robin Becker's Brains: A Zombie Memoir (2010).
Style on 08/16/2015