ghoul vs zed

ghoul

noun
  • A graverobber. 

  • A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritising economic concerns. 

  • A demon said to feed on corpses. 

  • A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive. 

zed

noun
  • A zombie. 

  • Something Z-shaped. 

  • The name of the Latin-script letter Z. 

  • Sleep. 

verb
  • To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.) 

  • To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns. 

How often have the words ghoul and zed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )