Questions tagged [undead]
To be no longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie.
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How does undead conjuration work in The Elder Scrolls, and where do the summoned undead come from?
In The Elder Scrolls games, the Conjuration magic skill allows the summoning of various creatures, including both Daedra and undead.
When it comes to summoning Daedra, the lore seems fairly clear. ...
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What was the first visual work to show only the top half of a zombie being destroyed, while the legs keeping moving?
I was watching a gameplay video, and I noticed something about the zombies—something which I have spotted in a number of other action games. Some of the zombie enemies had upper bodies that could be ...
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Fiction Book About Knights and Underground Creatures
Here's what I can recall
There's a village in a valley and all the houses are built on stone slabs to stop underground creatures from digging up into the houses
The creatures come out at night and ...
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Story-id: mining town with re-animated and remote controlled dead people used as robot-labor
This is short story (maybe short novella) I read in a short-story collection in the mid to late 80's.
Back then I was in my teens and I found the whole concept really creepy.
It left an impression on ...
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Sci-fi book about 'zombie' creatures
I'm looking for a book that I read a few years ago (maybe 4 years). I'm not sure of what year it was, but I don't think that it was an old book.
I remember it vaguely but I wrote down everything I ...
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How did Count Duckula's predecessor meet his end?
According to the title narration of the cartoon Count Duckula (1988),
Castle Duckula, home for many centuries to a dreadful dynasty of vicious vampire ducks – The Counts of Duckula. Legend has it ...
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What was this movie I saw billed as the "Worst SF movie ever"?
Some years ago I watched very old science fiction movie on French television that was advertised as "The worst SF movie ever made".
It involved aliens who somehow woke up the dead, so the ...
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Why does Dracula need to rest his days in consecrated earth?
Since consecrated earth, even the Transylvanian type, should be connected to the “sacred,” what are some possible reasons for Bram Stoker to specify that Dracula needs this “holy soil” in order to ...
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I am Legend (Will Smith film), any explanation for skin literally burning in sunlight?
Given the medical/biological explanation for the "darkseekers," I can see no plausible explanation for the extremely rapid burning (with something like smoke) of the creatures in sunlight. ...
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Is there a standard afterlife in the Cthulhu Mythos?
H. P. Lovecraft's stories include several different, apparently independent ways that a person can become an undead creature after their own natural death (being raised from saltes, being reanimated ...
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Where did the term "the living impaired" originate?
In The Simpsons episode 9F04, "Treehouse of Horror III" (1994), Lisa refers to the "zombies" that Bart has just summoned and Bart snarkily replies that
Please Lis, they prefer to be called "the ...
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Looking for a short story about a ghoul woman
I read this story in an anthology in a school library sometime around 2000-2007. I don't remember the author, title of the story, or the title of the anthology, unfortunately. Description following is ...
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Why did the Gallowwalkers need to reskin when Wesley Snipes did not?
Wesley Snipes
Why did the Gallowwalkers need to reskin when Aman (Wesley Snipes) did not?
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What was the first story in which crucifixes burned vampires?
In many stories, crosses or other religious symbols hurt vampires.
In the Shadowhunters books by Cassandra Clare, vampires are weak to whatever religious symbols they believe in.
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Why do zombies eat our brains?
Do we know the first, or at least possibly the most influential, occurrence of zombies targeting humans for our delicious brains?
And do we know why they go for that organ specifically?
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