undead

[ uhn-ded ]

/ ˌʌnˈdɛd /

no longer alive but animated by a supernatural force, as a vampire or zombie.

(used with a plural verb) undead beings collectively (usually preceded by the).

Origin of undead

First recorded in 1895–1900

Meanwhile, Only Lovers Left Alive uses the city as a character as undead and ghostly as its human leads.

Can Hollywood Rejuvenate Detroit and America’s Bankrupt Cities? |David Levesley |May 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
With a force as essentially repetitive as the undead, changing locations (and plots) gives the show life.

What ‘The Walking Dead’ Can Learn From ‘World War Z’ |Melissa Leon |February 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
While Maggie, Daryl, Sasha and the others frantically chip away at the undead swarm, Rick hesitates.

The Walking Dead ‘Infected’ Recap: There Will Be Exploding Faces |Melissa Leon |October 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
His centuries-old lover, Eve (Tilda Swinton), lives out in Tangiers, and has a more positive outlook on the undead life.

Tom Hiddleston On His Rocker-Vampire in ‘Only Lovers Left Alive,’ ‘Thor 2,’ and ‘Avengers 2’ |Marlow Stern |September 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

For the most part, undead Canadians reject the violent methods of the more militant zombies.

How Can Canada Deal with the Zombie Threat? |David Frum |February 16, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
They seemed to watch her with the awful patience of the undead.

Shadows in the Moonlight |Robert E. Howard
Usually some of our captives live from full moon to full moon before they become like those of the galley—the undead.

Isle of the Undead |Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
She reached the first of the undead, and Cliff saw light glint on a knife-blade.

Isle of the Undead |Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Give them outsized, bat-adorned tools and get them to play at construction activity in thumpy, undead pantomime.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |Cory Doctorow
At the doleful, soothing sound the undead halted in their tracks; halted—and melted into nothingness before his eyes!

Isle of the Undead |Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

undead

/ (ʌnˈdɛd) /