Fear was a curious thing. There were strange beings in the world that could consume it, and ghost zombies were a perfect example.

Zombies were born out of accumulated grievances and yin energy, abandoned by heaven and earth, wandering outside the three realms and cycle of five elements, and caught between life and death. If a zombie’s body remained intact after death, it would gather resentment and refine yin energy until, finally, it became a zombie again—a ghost zombie.

Unlike grudge corpses, the resentment of which had plateaued and given rise to a grudge spirit that turned it into something between a zombie and a ghost, ghost zombies were still fully zombies. Only, they could consume fear and feed on other zombies....