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Zombie brides were the most sought-after creatures throughout the South after the U.S. Civil War. Creole zombie brides were considered the most beautiful; and after men saw Little Sister Sally on Dr. John’s arm, every rich man in the city wanted to have a Zombie Bride of his own to show off at the next major social event.

Of all the women who gained Dr. John’s special attention, his favorite may have been a very young Voodoo Queen of great beauty. He called her “Little Sister Sally” just because he liked that name, and the way it rolled off his tongue. Sally, whose real name was Alice Slowe Jefferson, was the youngest Voodoo Queen ordained, and she was personally taught by Dr. John, who also zombified her alive.

Though he was advanced in age and she was a mere girl of 12 when he took her into his fold, some believe that it was Little Sister Sally who had taken possession of Dr. John’s dark book of all the 100-plus spells on how to zombify someone. Even today, members of the Secret Society of Dr. John believe that Sister Sally is the only complete Zombie Queen who ever existed. Through some dark, mysterious spell that Dr. John perfected in St. Louis Cemetery Number One, the exotic Creole beauty, the daughter of a rich plantation owner, remains alone as the world’s most perfect youthful living Zombie Queen. Zombified on her seventeenth birthday, Little Sister Sally has never had to fear the passage of time.

Zombie brides were the most sought after creatures throughout the South after the great Civil War. Creole zombie brides were considered the most beautiful, and every rich man in the city wanted to have a zombie bride of his own to show off at the next major social event (art by Ricardo Pustanio).