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Vampires Existed in Fiction Before Dracula
Horde Monster Fact #9: Vampires Existed in Fiction Before Dracula

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) shaped almost every modern vampire trope, but it wasn’t the first vampire novel. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, published 25 years earlier in 1872, predates it and features one of literature’s earliest vampire characters.
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Haitian Folklore Has a Real-World Basis Theory
Horde Monster Fact #8: Haitian Folklore Has a Real-World Basis Theory

Ethnobotanist Wade Davis proposed in the 1980s that Haitian zombie folklore may connect to practices involving powerful toxins that could induce a death-like state, though the theory remains debated among researchers.
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The CDC Once Published a Zombie Apocalypse Guide
Horde Monster Fact #7: The CDC Once Published a Zombie Apocalypse Guide

In 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a genuinely real blog post about zombie apocalypse preparedness, using the horde-fiction hook to teach actual disaster readiness. It reportedly crashed their servers from traffic.
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World War Z Was an Oral History, Not a Straight Novel
Horde Monster Fact #6: World War Z Was an Oral History, Not a Straight Novel

Max Brooks followed his survival guide with World War Z in 2006, structured as a series of first-person interviews collected after a global zombie war, a format inspired by real oral-history journalism rather than typical horror storytelling.
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