living dead vs zed

living dead

noun
  • The undead; zombies, vampires, etc. 

adj
  • Existing in stasis, without meaningful activity or development. 

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 living dead and zed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )