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 * Some ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' novels dealing with [[The Undead]] state that only a headshot dissipates the [[Black Magic]] animating the corpses.
 * Decapitation is actually the only way to kill a vampire in [[Bram Stoker]]'s original ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]''. [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy-style]] staking is kind of a [[Plot Tumor]] of the Dracula-derived vampire mythos; driving a stake through the heart is used to ''immobilize'' the vampires so it's easier to take the head off.
-* Lampshaded in [[Brains A Zombie Memoir]].
+* Lampshaded in ''[[Brains: A Zombie Memoir]]''.{{context}}
 * Averted in ''[[Counselors and Kings]]'' - it's explicitly stated that removing the head does ''not'' destroy a zombie, though it does blind and deafen it, since the now-headless undead has no eyes or ears. Magic or completely destroying the corpse through dismemberment or fire is what kills them.
 * In ''[[The Forest of Hands and Teeth]]'', zombies can only be killed by chopping off their head.