Sorry about the skipped column last week–I did the National Novel Writing Month thing and was rushing to finish before the deadline. Since I’m still recovering, this week you’re getting a table of random monsters (most of which are conveniently described either in the Monster of the Week column, and which are individually linked for…
Also Known As: Zombies, Walking Dead, Animated Dead, Walking Corpse, Brain Eaters, Fleshbags. They are also sometimes called ghouls, though this usage is technically incorrect. It is important to distinguish between the living dead and zombis or the re-animated (see “BMA Classification”). Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
Zombies are the reanimated (often decomposing) corpses of deceased humans. Although many zombies retain the ability to speak, they otherwise exhibit few signs of higher intelligence. The zombie’s only motivation in unlife is to satisfy its desire to feed on human flesh (brains in particular), though zombies do exhibit rudimentary self-preservation instincts and can use…
