Just read your document and it mentioned necromancy. I'm reminded of the film Re-animator based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Basically, its described as being like Frankenstein except the reanimation process is performed by injecting the body with a glowing reanimation fluid. Improper dosage or complications can result in the body getting up screaming, have their eyes and skin melt, and then die again shortly afterwards. I understand a villain in the story made a sort of army of zombies by lobotomizing the corpse before reanimating them and controlling them through hypnosis or something.

Funny thing is, I first heard about this on a forum devoted to Bioshock after posting a quick dead-parrot sketch involving the pet shop owner re-animating the bird with plasmids (due to it being in Rapture and all).