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-"Friend Arthur, if you had met that [[kiss]] which you know of before poor [[Lucy Westenra|Lucy]] die; or again, last night when you open your arms to her, you would in time, when you had died, have become [[Nosferatu (word)|nosferatu]], as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those [[undead|Un-Dead]]s that so have fill us with [[horror]]. The career of this so unhappy dear lady is but just begun." --[[Abraham Van Helsing]] 
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Undead is a collective name for mythological beings that are deceased yet behave as if alive. Undead may be spiritual, such as ghosts, or corporeal, such as Zombies. Undead are featured in the legends of most cultures and in many works of fiction, especially fantasy and horror fiction.

Bram Stoker considered the term "The Un-Dead" for the original title for his novel Dracula, and its use in the novel is mostly responsible for the modern sense of the word. The word does appear in English before Stoker but with the more literal sense of "alive" or "not dead," for which citations can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary. Stoker's use of the term refers only to vampires, and the extension to other types of supernatural beings arose later. Most commonly, it is now taken to refer to supernatural beings which had at one time been alive and continue to display some aspects of life after death, but the usage is highly variable.

In philosophy

Jacques Derrida used the myth of the undead as a means to deconstruct the binary opposition between life and death.

See also

medieval revenant




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