What is another word for ghouls?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈuːlz] (IPA)

Ghouls are creatures of the undead, often depicted in mythology and horror stories. Synonyms for the word "ghouls" include zombies, skeletons, vampires, reanimated corpses, spectres, and wraiths. These various synonyms highlight the variety of forms that undead beings can take in different cultures and stories. While zombies are often portrayed as mindless and infectious, vampires are known for their seductive nature and aversion to garlic and sunlight. Skeletons are often seen as eerie and haunting in their appearance, and reanimated corpses are brought back to life through magical means. Spectres and wraiths are more elusive and ghost-like, often appearing as wispy apparitions. Each synonym offers a unique perspective on the feared being of ghouls.

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Usage examples for Ghouls

Every time anyone moves out-and sometimes when they don't-you'll see those two ghouls hanging around; and the minute they're gone, well, you never saw anything like it, the way they will fight for the loot.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge
It seemed to interest him to know that such a villa belonged to such a Pasha, that such another was the property of an old princess of evil fame, while the third had seen strange doings in the days of Mehemet Ali, and was now deserted or inhabited only by ghosts of the past,-the resort of ghouls and jins from the neighboring grave-yards.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
"Revered," replied Lin, with engaging candour, "the inconveniences of living in a country so densely populated with demons, vampires, spirits, ghouls, dragons, omens, forces and influences, both good and bad, as our own unapproachably favoured Empire is, cannot be evaded from one end of life to the other.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc

Famous quotes with Ghouls

  • We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
    Michelle Malkin
  • Reading lots of Dickens. : the last Catholic pogrom - , the Gordon Riots in London - 1780, twenty years before Newman was born. He must have known people who had set fire to the houses, or taken in victims and refugees. Lord George Gordon who led the mob (obviously a religious maniac) died as late as 1793. , - this too, is part of Newman's background, this gallery of living gargoyles, ghouls and monsters. Might account, perhaps, even for some of Newman's pessimism about the world and human nature, which some attribute merely to his own melancholy disposition? That nineteenth century!!
    Ida Friederike Görres
  • For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot.They see their fellows as impediments to feeding, to be mauled and shrieked at when the mourners go home.
    Brian McNaughton
  • Even if the barrier now should disappear and the Flowers withdraw their attention from our Earth, we still would have been shaken from the comfortable little rut which assumed that life as we know it was the only kind of life and that our road of knowledge was the only one that was broad and straight and paved. There had been ogres in the past, by finally the ogres had been banished. The trolls and ghouls and imps and all the others of the tribe had been pushed out of our lives, for they could survive only on the misty shores of ignorance and in the land of superstition. Now, I thought, we’d know an ignorance again (but a different kind of ignorance) and superstition, too, for superstition fed upon the lack of knowledge. With this hint of another world—even if its denizens should decide not to flaunt themselves, even if we should find a way to stop them—the trolls and ghouls and goblins would be back with us again. There’d be chimney corner gossip of this other place and a frantic, desperate search to rationalize the implied horror of its vast and unknown reaches, and out of this very search would rise a horror greater than any the other world could hold. We’d be afraid, as we had been before, of the darkness that lay beyond the little circle of our campfire.
    Clifford D. Simak

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