They are featuring in the Last Chronicles, they are sort of demonic, but they inhabit dead bodies, so you could argue it either way
From George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire:
“Coldhands”, who is probably Benjen Stark
Lord Berik Dondarrion
Lady Catelyn Stark
The latter two are what I’d call “borderline undead”, namely people who were brought back from the dead… but not all the way.
Plus assorted wights.
Gee, I’d have thought this topic a hot one…
What about Chuck in Pushing Daisies? She died and Ned bought her back to life. Undead horror does seem a little harsh, though.
Jason after Part 5.
Freddy Kruger?
Bub.
Spike (from Buffy)
Jacob Marley’s Ghost.
Oh! The T’lan Imass from Erickson’s Malazan Empire series!
Nightwalkers from Touched by the Gods.
Ghosts, from The Windhover Tapes.
Vampires, vampsters and Medvamps from The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump. Human vampires, vampire hamsters, and vampire Mediterranean fruit flies, respectively.
Romero zombies (var. “ghouls”)-- the Alpha and Omega of zombism. Before Romero, zombies were merely stoned Haitians. Romero gave to zombies the niche that European vampires used to occupy in folklore before they became gay.
O’Bannon zombies. They say “Brains!” Also, if you’re the sort of geek who participates in these discussions, you earn extra points for knowing the full name and manufacturer of the chemical that creates them.
Count Orlock from Nosferatu: the original answer to that classic question: “What happens if you take Dracula and beat him with the ugly stick until he’s no longer copyrighted?”
Strahd von Zarovich from Ravenloft: the classic answer to the timeless question: “What if Bram Stoker had been a 19-year-old gamer from Columbus, Ohio in 1983?”
Rufus the Indestructible Cat from Reanimator. *“What would a note say? ‘Cat dead; details later’?” *
Go rent “Dead Heat” it may be close enough for you. While fighting zombies, Joe Piscopo turns to Treat Williams and says
“Remember the good old days, when you shot people and they DIED?”
Oh, and pretty much everyone in this movie, including Joe and Treat, qualify for this thread.
Don’t forget Lord Soth.
Deadman is dead, of course.
Also, any old ghost story assumes that the ghost is a cold, animated corpse. Marley’s Ghost in “A Chistmas Carol” was supposed to be a solid creature; the see-through ghost assumptions came later (probably after films started depicting them that way).
"His colour changed though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes. Upon its coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried, “I know him; Marley’s Ghost!” and fell again.
The same face: the very same. Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head. The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. His body was transparent, so that Scrooge, observing him, and looking through his waistcoat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind."
Yep- definitely solid there!"
Dead though.
Don’t bleed none, neither.
He counts.