I took a road trip through upstate New York last weekend and found myself musing the paradox of fall's pretty colours. Those vibrant harvest hues are a sign that the leaves are dying, putting on one last red and gold show before shriveling and drying up.

Finding beauty in death is a new revelation to me, but it's long been obvious to others: autumn leaves have got nothing on the recent proliferation of sexy zombies. Here's a roundup—and for the necrophiliac north Americans out there, most have options to buy, buy, buy.

My favourites are the gruesomely gorgeous chicks at My Zombie Pin-up. Something about those oozing sores just adds a little extra oomph to the heaving bosoms and garter belts, don't you think? Get yourself a big glossy calendar—above, please say hello to Ms. August—and enjoy Halloween-type thrills all year long.

If you want to share your love of brain-eating chicks with the world, what you need are zombie wearables. Over at crafty Etsy, they aim to please: this necklace pendant featuring a bloodthirsty green nurse is pretty cool, as is this stainless steel ciggie case. Perhaps you yourself are a sexy zombie, in which case you'd probably like to create a sickly pallor with cosmetics like "Dead Flesh" and "Tombstone" from Coffin Color before donning this spiderweb-embroidered pencil skirt.  Sometimes, these affections turn into obsessions, in which case take your own roadtrip down south to get yourself a buxom zombie tattoo.

Internet addiction notwithstanding, my love of words was spurred by ink—if we're confessing fetishes here mine is paper, paper, paper. Zombie-loving Luddites write their cold, stiff erotic novels in  notebooks adorned with their special girl. They pen birthday greetings on similarly decorated greeting cards, and make sure they aren't late for the party by checking their cute yet creepy wall clocks. Ps., is it just me, or does her hairstyle invoke a certain American vice presidential candidate? This could explain a lot.

Of course, having stinky, rotting limbs often makes it hard to hold a steady job, and you might have a cashflow problem that inhibits your ability to feed your sexy zombie habit. In which case, here are some freebies: send your Halloween greetings with these frightfully alluring e-cards and then rock out to this video that has zombie babes in tight tees getting soaked at the car wash. Then frolic through the crunchy leaves, celebrating the season of the undead.