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The Corpse of Charlie Rull

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The Corpse of Charlie Rull	comment	"The Corpse of Charlie Rull" is a short Sci-Fi Horror story written by Joseph Payne Brennan. Originally published in his 1959 collection The Dark Returners, it was later featured as the second story in 1980's The Shapes of Midnight.It tells the short, horrific tale of homeless heart attack victim Charlie Rull, whose body falls into a swampy pool which is saturated with radioactive chemicals unintentionally leaked from a laboratory near the dump where he lived. The noxious waste is absorbed by Charlie's corpse and resurrects him as an inhumanly strong zombie. Remembering nothing of his former life, Charlie feels only pain from the radiation burning through his undead body. Now filled with a vicious hatred of all living things and the compulsive need to expend energy through violent action, Zombie-Charlie proceeds to go on a murderous rampage through the surrounding countryside.As with Slime, a great audio version narrated by Edward E. French can be found here.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Played straight with Charlie. Because he's a zombie, he has no blood to bleed. Completely averted with his victims, however; he ends up drenched in the blood of everyone he tears to pieces.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Because he stumbles through the homeless men's campfire, Charlie's clothes catch fire and burn off, leaving him completely naked for his final battle against the cops.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Crazy Zack. He comes up a couple of times in discussion among the local homeless in Newbridge (he's apparently known as something of a mooch), and as Charlie is approaching three of his fellow tramps cooking dinner, they mistake him for Zack initially. Zack himself never actually appears. Considering what Charlie does to one of his three friends, he's probably glad he missed supper.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_1c3a639e	type	Freak Lab Accident
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_1c3a639e	comment	Freak Lab Accident: The only reason the chemical contaminants get into the swamp in the first place.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_1dfe0253	type	Theremin
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_1dfe0253	comment	Theremin: Used in Edward E. French's audio version.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: The hitchhiker is described as "olive-skinned" and "Latin".
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: When his heart attack comes on, Charlie just keels over dead on the spot.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The whole story (excluding the three days in which Charlie's body was immersed in the swamp) takes place over a few hours on a single night.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: After the initial volley of rifle fire severely hurts Charlie's face, the police captain orders his sergeant, manning a machine gun, to have a go, and his fire completely cuts Charlie in two.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: The scientists at the lab where the radioactive chemicals came from.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: At one point, Charlie happens upon three fellow homeless men who recognize him. Naturally, he attacks them. One of them attempts to reason with him, insisting he's never crossed Charlie, and reminding him that they shared a drink just that past New Year's. Charlie responds by tearing him apart.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Because the resurrected Charlie hates all life, he has no qualms about chasing after a little girl named Cynthia and attempting to kill her. Fortunately, he fails.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_494d83c8	type	Helping Hands
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_494d83c8	comment	Helping Hands: When being riddled with bullets by the sergeant, one of Charlie's hands is severed and crawls around like "a crab."
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: After the hitchhiker/Serial Killer, Charlie sights and gives chase to a little girl named Cynthia, however her mother grabs her up and escapes with her. After failing to find either of them, he satisfies himself with killing their horse. Upon seeing what's left of it, Cynthia's mother faints, leaving her daughter unprotected; fortunately for Cynthia, Charlie has by this time wandered away into the woods and forgotten about her.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted. The local police captain and his men very quickly believe survivors' stories, and their hastily thrown together defense involving rifles, machine guns and searchlights is able to sufficiently deal with the killer zombie hobo.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Charlie's severed head continues living for a bit after the sergeant shoots it off.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: What Charlie becomes. His second victim also turns out to be a serial killer himself, and is in fact planning his next crime before he gets interrupted by Charlie.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Charlie tears the salesman's head off attempting to pull him from his overturned car. At the end, the police sergeant's machine gun decapitates Charlie completely.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: What Charlie was when he was alive. It's one of things which contributed to his fatal heart attack.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_857d1626	type	Power Glows
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_857d1626	comment	Power Glows: Because he's infused with radiation, Charlie emits a kind of Sickly Green Glow in the darkness.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We never learn the fate of the other two homeless guys Charlie attacks. It's likely they escaped while he was killing the third and/or while he was attacking their campfire, but some clarification would've been nice.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: As with Slime, the story is told almost entirely from Charlie's point of view and ends right after he gets killed (again).
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Charlie is resurrected by irradiated chemical contaminants in the swamp water he falls into, and isn't interested in eating his victims, only mindlessly killing them, like a Rage virus victim in 28 Days Later (minus the Technically-Living Zombie part; it isn't called "The Corpse of Charlie Rull" for nothing). He is constantly in pain from the radioactive energy coursing through him, and commits violent acts as a means of expending that energy. He is also driven by an intense hatred of all life that isn't in the same kind of pain as him.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Charlie's first and second victims. The first is a salesman who hits him with his car and initially decides to keep going after he mistakenly believes he's killed the undead tramp, essentially fleeing the scene of an accident in a hit and run. Charlie overturns his car and rips him to bits. His second victim is a hitchhiker who turns out to be a Serial Killer planning to murder whoever picks him up.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Charlie gets completely torn in half by the police sergeant's machine gun. Both halves continue living and crawling around, until further fire shoots Charlie into so many pieces he ceases being a threat.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: The salesman who hits Charlie with his car blames Charlie for the accident.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Nuclear Mutant: It is radioactive chemicals from a laboratory which bring Charlie back to what could charitably be called "life" and makes him inhumanly strong.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: The police captain.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: Due to the radiation which brought him back to life, Zombie-Charlie is now strong enough not only to rend fully-grown adult humans (and, presumably, horses) to pieces, but also to lift up entire cars.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_aac2244a	type	EvilVsEvil
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_aac2244a	comment	Evil vs. Evil: Charlie's encounter with the hitchhiker. The man turns out to be a wanted serial killer who'd been planning his next attack when Charlie stumbled across him.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The one good thing that comes of Charlie's rampage is that he saved whoever would've been the serial killer's next target when he makes said killer his second victim, although, being a zombie, he of course neither knows nor cares.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: Zombie!Charlie's eyes are described as glowing.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: Hoooo boy...
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_bb6461b4	type	Finish Him!
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_bb6461b4	comment	Finish Him!: The police captain at the end, screaming hysterically after his men briefly freeze up.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Cynthia's mother faints when she sees what Charlie did to her horse. Two reporters covering the cops' battle with Charlie at the end faint after witnessing the severed upper body of Charlie continuing to crawl forward even after the sergeant shoots him in half.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Most of the characters are identified solely by their roles/jobs; the salesman, hitchhiker, the three tramps, the captain and his sergeant all don't get names. In fact, the only named characters in the story besides Charlie are Cynthia Mellett and her mother, Mrs. Mellett, as well as "Crazy Zack."
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: Charlie, obviously.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Although Brennan describes in pretty grisly detail how Zombie-Charlie kills and dismembers his human victims, we aren't told what happened to the horse. Only that the sight of it causes Cynthia's mother to faint.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Being a bloated, radioactive corpse, Charlie has a pretty nasty-looking face. It gets worse after his fight with the knife-wielding hitchhiker, who slashes him several times and even cuts off his left ear. And then even worse at the end when rifle fire from the police tears half of his face away.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Many of Charlie's victims get their limbs torn off. Charlie himself has an arm shot off by the cops at the end, among the other injuries he sustains.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_de51d725	type	Eye Lights Out
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_de51d725	comment	Eye Lights Out: When Charlie (finally!) dies (again!), his Glowing Eyes of Doom fade out.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Charlie Rull was honestly just a down-on-his-luck homeless guy who never hurt a soul until he fell into the radioactive swamp.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e1d1a88c	type	Disposable Vagrant
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e1d1a88c	comment	Disposable Vagrant: No one notices poor Charlie go missing after he dies and falls into the swamp, although it could simply be due to the short timeframe, as even his fellow homeless men only realizing anything has happened to him when he turns up at their campsite and attacks them.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e4d5e4c0	type	Five Rounds Rapid
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e4d5e4c0	comment	Five Rounds Rapid: The police captain's initial response to Charlie using ordinary rifles. When that fails, he has his sergeant unleash More Dakka with a machine gun, wbich cuts the zombie in two.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: It's pretty nasty for a story written in the 50s.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: As a zombie, Charlie very rarely gives up once he sights a victim. When Cynthia and her mother run inside the house as he chases them, Charlie slams himself repeatedly against the door as well as the side of the house in a frenzied effort to get inside. Although he succeeds, Cynthia and her mother escape out the front door and hide in the tall grass. At the end, when facing the cops, Charlie is shot. A lot. After becoming Half the Man He Used to Be thanks to the sergeant's machine gun, both his upper and lower halves continue coming after them until they just keep shooting him so much he literally falls to pieces. Even then, the bits and pieces of Charlie, infused by the radioactive chemicals, continue crawling around and writhing before finally dying.
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The Corpse of Charlie Rull / int_f07102a8	comment	Infernal Retaliation: After killing one of the homeless men, Charlie becomes fixated on their campfire and attacks it, catching his clothes on fire in the process. Although the flames fail to hurt or kill him, and end up burning off his clothes, he staggers around searching for more people to kill before the flames goe out and leaves a trail of fire everywhere he goes as a result. Eventually half of Newbridge's forested areas go up in flames.
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