A partially revived creature that returns from death with an insatiable taste for human flesh. Originally a Haitian Creole term for a person who has been raised from death by sorcery to be a mindless slave, it takes its current meaning from the film, "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), in which people rise from the grave to eat or turn any survivors. While the movie did not call the monsters "zombies," fans of the film later borrowed the term and this has become the dominant meaning of the word.

Modern zombies have features similar to medieval vampires or ghouls.