A zombie family out for a stroll. That’s quality time. Credit: Mark McKenna

Last Saturday’s Zombie Walk jump started the Halloween season with its third annual lurch and drag through Eureka’s Old Town by a small army of the undead. Fake blood enthusiasts of all ages, from toddlers with barely enough teeth to gnaw the living to adults with serious makeup skills, groaned and dragged their decaying corpses from the Humboldt County Courthouse to Old Town as the Arts Alive crowds looked on in amusement/horror. Photographer Mark McKenna followed along, capturing the gory stroll with nary a scratch. But don’t worry — if he starts to turn, we’ll put him down. Promise.

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is the managing editor of the North Coast Journal. She won the Association of...

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