In this paper, I would like to go beyond the endlessly repeated cliché of the zombie as a threatening cannibal and reframe this supposedly well-known concept by taking it back to the historical space of the Atlantic. I would like to conceptualize the zombi as an utterly mobile example for the circulation of concepts and narratives within this transatlantic space. 1 Accordingly, I want to question simplistic scholarly explanations for the cultural background of zombi(e) narratives, which in my view tend to reinforce stereotypes.