zombiephile
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editzombiephile (plural zombiephiles)
- A person with a strong interest in zombies.
- 2011 April 5, Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night[1], illustrated edition, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN, page 100:
- “Many cultures have their own end of the world, archetypal avatars,” says Dan Burrello, an Asheville, North Carolina, horror writer and zombiephile with master's degrees in psychology and writing.
- 2011 May 8, Scott Jacobson, “Weekend at Mort's” (12:29 from the start), in Bob's Burgers[2], season 1, episode 11, spoken by Louise Belcher (Kristen Schaal):
- Only that green mold turns bodies into the living dead. Tina, you're a zombiephile. You should know this! I'm not a zombiephile. I have a complicated relationship with zombies. They're dangerous, but I love their swagger.
- 2011 November 1, James Lowde, edited by Joe R. Lansdale, Jay Bonansinga, Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen[3], illustrated edition, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 231:
- Special thanks to legendary storyteller Joe r. lansdale for gracing us with his foreword (you cannot call yourself a true zombiephile if you have not read his brilliant “On the Far Side of […]
- 2013 November 15, Keenan Norris, “Contemporary Street Lit 1990s and 2000s”, in Omar Tyree, editor, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape[4], illustrated edition, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 181:
- Jess d'Arbonne, an expert zombiephile, writes in the Examiner, “The new government, based in Buffalo, is obsessed with PR and image, often forgetting what the men and woman working toward rebuilding are facing on a daily basis”
- 2015 May 7, Kimberly Fain, “Sag Harbor and Zone One”, in Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature[5], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 145:
- Jess d'Arbonne, an expert zombiephile, writes in the Examiner, “The new government, based in Buffalo, is obsessed with PR and image, often forgetting what the men and women working toward rebuilding are facing on a daily basis.”
- 2016, Leni Morgan, How A Good Geek Went Mad Or How A Good Geek Survived The Zombie Apocalypse[6], illustrated edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 43:
- Sorry I'm ranting and I'm trying my hardest not to panic here. I am clinging onto the small hope that Hugh is as big a zombiephile as I am and for the past few weeks he has been asking lots of questions about serious places to go and I've told him that if I was there I would go to Uncle Phil's and explained why, plus gave him his contact details as well.
- 2017, W. Chris Winter, “Why We Love Bacon Coffee”, in The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and how to Fix it[7], illustrated edition, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:
- While zombies are beyond the scope of this book, it is worth noting that there is much debate within the zombiephile community as to whether or not zombies sleep. The consensus is that they most likely do not, but probably exist in a low-energy quiescent state resembling sleep when they are not chasing humans.