The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.

He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.

An Indian lost in the woods! said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly.

Blimey, Brand is checking a word with me. This is nothing like the motor-mouth on the telly, laughing in the face of everything.