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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3981482" data-attributes="member: 2205">Indeed.  Ghouls seem to have always been associated with a tradition that we would today call undead, but it wasn't always called undead.I don't know about when it became common, but I know Bram Stoker used the word undead, and Renfrew was a pretty solid prototype of a guy on his way towards becoming a "modern" ghoul.In any case, I believe I read somewhere that Stoker coined the term undead, so considering ghouls undead before the coining of the term undead would be an exercise in futility.  Right off the bat after the term was coined, ghouls seem to (more often than not) been associated with undead, if not outright members of that particular social club.</blockquote>