Transylvania 90210 - Zombie hammer

I reached for the banister and with my other hand clung to it for dear life
to keep from tumbling down the stairs.

Skreech’s sharp, crooked teeth began to gnaw at my hand.

“Ahhhhh!” I screamed again as I felt my grip slowly begin to loosen.
Desperate, I tore my hand from Skreech’s drooling mouth and shoved it
into the bag that hung around my shoulder, grabbing for the hammer.
I closed my eyes and swung the heavy mallet with all my might! It
connected with Skreech’s skull with a nasty thud.

Skreech reeled backward, stumbling into the rotting, staircase banister.
With a loud, splintering crack, the railing broke way and the hunchback
plummeted down, flight after flight, and landed headfirst, splattering onto
the marble stone floor below.

Carefully, I peeked over the broken banister and grimaced at the ghastly
spectacle. Skreech’s frizzy-haired skull had split wide open like a ripe
melon.

A teaming mass of wriggling worms squirmed out of his head and spilled
onto the floor! I was so repulsed by the sight that I nearly gagged.
It was then that Skreech’s inhuman behavior began to make sense.

Because Skreech wasn’t human at all.

He was a zombie.

- Elvira: Transylvania 90210, Chapter 31 pgs. 116-117