Undeath

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Undeath is an evil curse often found in dark fiction such as horror, fantasy and folklore - it dates back at least several thousand years and is probably a product of our natural fears of death and the idea that the dead may somehow return to plague the living as the "Undead": especially if the dead are seen as somehow wronged.

The most common form of Undeath is said to be a haunting, where a spirit or revenant continually stalks an area where he or she has died: often refusing to leave until their deaths have been avenged (in the case of murder) or they are put to "rest" (such as if their grave was defiled).

However the most feared forms of Undeath were those of the vampire, ghoul or zombie - which would rise from the grave in corporeal form and often fed upon the living: these would become recurring antagonists in innumerable media and would in turn spawn even more varied subtypes of "Undead".