At the same instant, the gunpowder was lit - the massive, flaming explosion blew up Memnon""s soldiers as they were making a surging charge, about to overwhelm Balthazar""s and Queen Isis"" valiant rebel forces.Re-animated corpses had been transformed into shuffling, hungry, ravenous flesh-eating ""zombies"" - basically for no known or confirmed reason - although there were vague references to the theory that a radioactive NASA Venus space probe-satellite returning to Earth was deliberately exploded and spread a dangerous amount of mysterious radiation, and possibly caused recently-deceased corpses to rise up from their graves.After being bounced from one deck to the other a few times, he hangs precariously over the water in the gap between he two boats."After a flash of light, she then saw Freddy inflicting mutilation upon himself as masochistic Teen Freddy (Tobe Sexton) - slicing his own exposed mid-section with a straight-edged razor.The story was also reprinted in a 1948 collection of Campbell""s work, titledSeven Tales of Science Fiction.