Citations:zompire

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English citations of zompire

Noun: "(slang) a zombie-vampire hybrid"

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  • 2008, Laura Northup, Murder at the Manor, Xlibris (2008), →ISBN, page 137:
    What if he were one of those vampires she'd been researching at the library? Then, what was he doing out during the day. Maybe he was a zombie. But he didn't look like a zombie, not really. Maybe he was that rare hybrid form of animorph very much respected among the Undead. Yes...he might be a zompire!
  • 2009, Tate Hallaway, Dead If I Do, Berkley Books (2009), →ISBN, page 70:
    "The zompire is quite the creation," Parrish said. "Yours, I take it?"
  • 2012, Alexia Purdy, Disarming, Lyrical Lit. Publishing (2012), unnumbered page:
    He'd wanted to clear each casino out from the zompire infestations, but knew he'd never be able to do it alone.
  • 2013, Lorraine Kennedy, Skinwalkers: Song of Wolves: Volume 1, unnumbered page:
    “Who knows? I've never actually dealt with zombies before. If I get bit ... it might turn me into a zompire!” he said, only half jokingly.
  • 2013, Patrick Roberts, The Strangers, unnumbered page:
    "I thought they said dead men tell no tales." Jessica frowned, "Why couldn't he be a zombie or a vampire. Here's a thought, it could be a zompire. It would be less confusing."
  • 2014 February 1, david milligan [username], “Nick Brendon”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[1] (Usenet):
    The story arc Brendon will pen involves the group seeking out Dracula to gain insight on the new zompire (zombie vampire) population.
  • 2015, Greg Garrett, Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination, Oxford University Press (2015), →ISBN, page 39:
    Whether we speak of the sexually charged monsters of the classic Dracula variety, the sparkly vampires of the Twilight novels and films, or the “'zompires” of Justin Cronin's The Passage, I Am Legend, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic, vampires seem to be everywhere in recent years, []
  • 2015, James Leck, After Dark, Kids Can Press (2015), →ISBN, page 198:
    Behind her, ten other zompires snarled at me, baring their own thorny fangs.