Patrick Johanneson

From my zombies-in-Canada work in progress:

…The pre­ferred term for those that have under­gone the trans­for­ma­tion in ques­tion is “revenant”. The word revenant should not be capitalized.

Unless you are directly quot­ing a source, do not use the pejo­ra­tive terms “zom­bie” or “undead”. Both these terms carry a sub­stan­tial seman­tic pay­load. If they are used, make it clear that they are terms used by the quoted source, and not terms nor­mally in use by your out­let. In extremely revenant-friendly regions (Moose Jaw and envi­rons, for instance), you may wish to con­sider using aster­isks to mask the term: “z****e” or “und**d”, for example.

—Cana­dian Press Style­book, 23^rd Edi­tion (2017)