Zombies v.s. Vampires, Who Will Win?


Images above from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922)
Editors at the Oxford English Dictionary has compiled a handy chart to help us find the answer to this immortal question. Data representing the frequency of the appearance of the words vampire and zombie in the Oxford English Corpus over the past ten years show a close race. To see how close, take a look at the data in this helpful graph, and we’ll table any discussion of werewolves (for now).