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Recent Examples of zombiesThere’s something reassuring, if also terrible, about the inexhaustibility of zombies, and of content, and of zombie content.—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Celebrate the endless oblivion of eternal night with an evening that recreates the city’s ethereal relationship with vampires in all their forms on this most hallowed of dates.
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William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
There’s energy vampires that suck the energy out of a room.
This also marks the first time players can become ghouls themselves in the mainline story.
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Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2026
Now working as a stocker, Ash accidentally unleashes undead ghouls after reading from the Necronomicon, forcing him to take up his chainsaw yet again to save humanity from the Deadites.
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Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Feb. 2026