undead

His flights of fancy— malevolent music, undead scholars, imaginary brothers, a cult led by a guru with 93 Ferraris in an “experimental township” called the Moon — are more controlled and add subtle strokes of color.

The Rice tactic is to make the undead sympathetic.

Mr. Blair, an emeritus professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Oxford, has been thinking about the undead since his childhood.

Fear of the undead is almost a human universal.

The undead who wrestled with Vikings on Iceland had counterparts throughout Northern Europe.