unalive

Zombies for category #1: the terrorizing agents are neither dead nor alive, yet possess sentience and are driven by recognizable human impulses. this ambiguity is the core of what makes the audience uncomfortable or apprehensive. it is their state of being "unalive" that separates them from the reader/watcher.

cherie thinks out loud and clogs your friends page :: moriarty6 2004

Daenerys has a fever dream and wakes to discover her unborn son is dead, and Drogo is unalive, courtesy of the maegi.

Which episode will GRRM write? 2009

It always had, but with the night to give it animation it had never felt so … unalive.

Blood Lines Huff, Tanya 1993

The nicors flung their bodies against the unalive invader and were consumed, until their Mother cried to them to retreat.

The Queen of Air and Darkness Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1973

It was the voice he had heard before, inhuman, unalive, terrifying.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

Watt's experiments suggests that he was not unalive to its importance.

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

Forty-two, a touch of gray at the temples, a body like a boy's, hooded eyes like a hawk's, and a feeling in him somehow that an organ -- his heart maybe -- was dead: not ailing -- just unalive.

The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

As Pellerin read, this density of blackness -- which never for a moment seemed inert or unalive -- was attenuated by imperceptible degrees, till a greyish pallour replaced it; then the pallour breathed and brightened, and suddenly dawn was on the sea.

Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899

The earth circled away, and knowing that he did so, he turned his lost face to the empty sky and became dreamless, unalive, perfect.

KnowProSE.com - Comments brwn 2009

Sure, I’d dispatched some zombies, but they weren’t alive—or unalive—to begin with.

Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010