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I read somewhere that after the creation of the Great Rift, innumerable forms of plague zombies began to emerge in the galaxy. The most famous and numerous of these are the poxwalkers, but is there any fluff/images/rules showing/alluding to other types of post-Rift zombies?

 ArcaneHorror wrote:
I read somewhere that after the creation of the Great Rift, innumerable forms of plague zombies began to emerge in the galaxy. The most famous and numerous of these are the poxwalkers, but is there any fluff/images/rules showing/alluding to other types of post-Rift zombies?

Doubtworm Zombies come to mind.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Doubtworm

then there are these types:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/The_Vile_Savants

The first rules for "plague zombies" first appeared in the Realms of Chaos books for Nurgle. However this was at a time when 40K and WHFB still mingled so they weren't really that different from standard undead. There was little lore other than something like Nurgle had claim over those that died from his plagues and within a year and a day after they died, he could raise them as zombies and skeletons if he wished.

Then later in a WD article around the time of the Eye of Terror campaign, true unique plague zombie rules appeared. They got a chance to convert kills in close combat into more plague zombies. Then in the Eye of Terror Codex, they got more formal rules but they lost this conversion rule, and instead became Fearless and having a 4+ armor save with the downside of always moving as if in difficult terrain. Look at the images of the staggering hordes in that Codex for a picture of them. They basically looked like your conventional zombie apocalypse zombie, instead of the more goofy looking smiling spiky and copyrighted Poxwalkers.

Red Fury features some zombies (although I don't think that they're specified as being Nurgle), including a giant monster made up of loads of regular-sized zombies mashed together.

From the Poxwalker blurb in the Death guard codex;
"Yet Nurgles rot is but one of the diseases that churn within the innards of the Death Guard, and they saturate every world upon which they tread. The Destroyer Plague- that which tormented Mortarions sons and delivered them to Nurgle- still lurks in their rotting flesh. The zombie plague, the malady of unliving abomination for which Typhus the Herald is the vector primoria, has variegated into countless strains since the Great Rift yawned wide. The Weeping, Mutterflux, the Slithering Scourge and countless others spread before the Death Guard, and it is a cocktail of these appalling maladies that breeds the Walking Pox."