The Covid-19 pandemic saw an intense revival of the zombie apocalypse metaphor in popular discourse, as exemplified by the collective return to Max Brooks’s 2006 bestseller World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Heralded anew in 2020 as prophetic for its positioning of China as a hotbed of viral activity, World War Z has not only retained but also accumulated potency in the years since its publication—a phenomenon that underscores the endurance of an imagined link between epidemic disease, embodied monstrosity, and diasporic Asian peoples. This essay delves into the novel’s implications for both fictional and real-life Others: those deemed abject, non-human, and readily annihilated. Analyzing the insinuations of intimacy the novel makes between the zombie and Asiatic form, it tracks the various tropes that World War Z activates in its construction of racial monstrosity. Rather than simply dismissing these intimacies as problematic, I propose that we treat the zombie in World War Z as an accumulative figure, one that insists on the coexistence of multiple stories about Asiatic form and thus can speak to the complex textures of contemporary Asian American abjection. Moreover, these intimacies can instruct us in the value of being in relation with the non-human. Against the decidedly humanist view avowed in World War Z, I argue that it is within the monstrous intimacies the novel articulates (but attempts to foreclose) that we might find other ways of surviving catastrophe and remaking worlds in the aftermath.