What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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The Second Horror
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SOLVED. Fear street book where main character is a zombie? [s]
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The protagonist was a teenage boy whose parents were some kind of anthropologists. He begins noticing weird things happening, like when he plays basketball he throws his arm out of the socket doing a lay up. He wears a little pouch around his neck, and eventually he discovers that he died in some other country and his parents took him to a witch doctor to bring him back to life. Inside the pouch is some witch-doctery stuff that keeps his body alive, so he is in essence a zombie.
Maybe someone else will recognize this one! I thought it could be The Second Horror because the name Brandt sounds familiar, but the description doesn't at all.