Ever since George A. Romero took the screen zombie and imbued it with a ghoul’s hunger for human flesh, these voracious monsters have been associated with unfettered desire, atavistic urges, and the unrestrained human id. While the zombie can be understood as both victim and villain, some zombie scholars—such as professor of religion Paffenroth, KimKim Paffenroth—read them as multifarious symbols of sin, canonical sins such as gluttony, anger, and slothfulness, for example. With the rise of zombie-variants, zombie-adjacent figures, and post-zombie zombies, the semiotic power of the zombie can now be seen to represent all of the so-called Seven Deadly Sins, making the ghoulish living dead an even more powerful didactic figure than ever before. Like so many monsters, the zombie represents a powerful and flexible metaphor, one that has the power to instruct as well as terrify.