corpsicle

'Your newspapers called you people corpsicles,' said the blond man. 'I never understood what the tapes meant by that.'

'It comes from Popsicle. Frozen sherbet.' Corbell had used the word himself before he became one of them. One of the corpsicles, the frozen dead.

It started when a janitor found a corpsicle floating in a rooftop swimming pool next to Central Park one August morning. A stiff, but I mean stiff.