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->''"My girlfriend is smart, beautiful, and totally in love with me. The only problem is that she really enjoys the taste of human blood. Should I be at all concerned about this?"''
-->-- ''[[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]]'', "Episode 7"

TheUndead are usually scary, but sometimes they're [[YouSexyBeast sexy]] or even [[CuteMonsterGirl cute]] as well, and sometimes, a guy or a gal falls in love with one. A little bit of stalking-the-night and [[HorrorHunger feasting-off-the-bodies-of-the-living]] is no impediment to true romance, after all. When Boy Meets Ghoul, or [[RomanticVampireBoy girl meets vampire]], or, in general, when a living person meets an attractive member of the opposite side of the border between life and death, love can flourish. They say that [[ThePowerOfLove love conquers all]]. Maybe it can even conquer undeath?

Traditionally, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[SeductiveMummy mummies]], and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] are the go-to undead creatures for romance, with [[AttractiveZombie zombies]] having joined their ranks in the late 2000s. Romance with ''actual'' [[OurGhoulsAreDifferent ghouls]] of the undead variety is fairly rare and has taken a hit since the 1970s, but it makes for a good pun.

If the love comes first and the (un)death comes later, that's ResurrectedRomance.

A subtrope of InterspeciesRomance. May be a case of MayflyDecemberRomance. SisterTrope to MuggleMageRomance. See also: KissOfTheVampire, LesbianVampire, RomanticVampireBoy, CuteGhostGirl, ILoveTheDead and NightmareFetishist. May invoke the HemoErotic.

Contrast with {{Robosexual}}, ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex and DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* An advertisement for Canal+ and their "unpredictable programs" showed a man being chased by a zombie woman. When she finally tackles him, they look at each other and [[LoveAtFirstSight instantaneously fall in love]], the rest of the ad [[GenreShift turning into]] a romance movie [[spoiler:until they got [[DroppedABridgeOnHim crushed by a meteor]]]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21-S3lSD-Mg A 2017 advert]] for Wrigley's gum[[labelnote:*]] Though, oddly, ''which'' gum varied from country to country -- it was Orbit in the USA, Extra in the UK, Freedent in France...[[/labelnote]] has a romantic encounter between a teenage boy and a zombie girl.
-->'''Boy''': I don't really know if we should kiss. I mean... you're a ''zombie''.
-->'''Zombie Girl''': ''(chews gum, grins to display two rows of perfect pearly whites, complete with an [[AudibleGleam audible glint]])'' But [[AttractiveZombie I'm kinda hot]].
-->'''Boy''': ...Yeah. ''(they kiss, her hand falls off)''

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': Boy meets immortal, boy killed by immortal's pet, immortal absorbs his soul to resurrect him as a zombie--{{ahem}}--Wu.
* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Shirogane is animal example--a regular cat turned [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent ayakashi]], who can still [[BilingualAnimal talk to]] regular cats and be attracted to them. To his disappointment, this is first shown on [[AttractiveBentSpecies a human who was turned into an animal]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Shinigami dwell within the Soul Society, the world of spirits and ghosts. When humans die, Shinigami help their ghosts travel to the Soul Society. Those ghosts with spiritual power can then become Shinigami, although aristocratic Shinigami are born directly into [[SpiritWorld Soul Society]] as spirits. Ichigo and his sisters are the offspring of a Shinigami father who went AWOL from Soul Society to save the life of their human mother (he's one of the aristocrats born in Soul Society as well, so he's not a former human ghost). Although their mother has been dead for many years, their Shinigami father remains within the human world, masquerading as a doctor and raising his three children. Ginjou claims that Ichigo is not the first person to have been born from a Shinigami/Human pairing and, as a substitute Shinigami just like Ichigo, he might have been talking about himself. However, he leaves the identity of Ichigo's predecessor a mystery.
* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'': The plot is kicked off the night [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove Yamori]] meets [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Nazuna]] while wandering the streets at night, though it somewhat [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzags]] this trope as [[TechnicallyLivingVampire its particular brand of vampires aren't considered to be undead]].
* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'' is ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' with {{Super Robot}}s and aliens. Boy meets girl, girl turns out to be the AlienPrincess of the planet warring with Earth, girl runs away out of shame and tries to hide her heritage, boy finds out and tells her he loves her anyway, and both work together to put an end to the war. Also, girl's [[EvilPrince brother]] finds out and gets super SUPER mad, and the boy is branded a traitor by his fellow Earthlings and maltreated by his racist superior because of it.
* ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'':
** Boy meets vampire, boy falls in love with her, boy finds out that he's actually a werewolf.
** Also, boy meets babysitter/older sister stand in, she gets turned into vampire, boy eventually decides he'd rather become a vampire than live without her.
* ''Manga/DuskMaidenOfAmnesia'': Boy meets girl. Girl turns out to be amnesiac ghost of a 50-year-old corpse in the school basement. Mysteries ensue.
* A typical ''Manga/FrankenFran'' story usually doesn't start with this as a premise, but that may be how it ends up.[[note]]BoyMeetsGirl, girl gets in a car accident, remainder of girl's body placed in giant bio-reconstructive chrysalis to regenerate while boy helps nurse her back to health, girl emerges seemingly unscathed from chrysalis, boy and girl head to love hotel, girl transforms into monstrous insect creature and eats boy's intestines while he's still alive, reader is now horrified.[[/note]]
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Grizzled mercenary man]] meets [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampire]] [[CuteMonsterGirl girl]].
* ''Manga/{{Karin}}'': A classic girl-meets-boy story where the girl is a cute, shy, vampire (actually, a rare type of what you might call a backwards vampire).
* ''Manga/LivingDead'': Boy meets girl and develops a crush, but can't work up the nerve to tell her. Girl dies, becomes a zombie, and moves into boy's home.
* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Downplayed- Zombina-Chan the zombie is, like most named female characters, attracted to main character Kimiheto. She winds up roping him into taking her out on dates a few times, but never actually makes it into being part of his UnwantedHarem.
* ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'': [[UnluckyEverydude Boy]] meets CuteGhostGirl haunting his new apartment. Boy drowns his sorrows. Boy has long conversation with ghost about life and death. Boy accidentally gropes ghost, somehow. Ghost is surprised, then excited at the implications of a living boy being able to touch her. Boy and ghost make sweet love, then begin a bizarre, surprisingly tender romance in the apartment where the girl [[MoodWhiplash brutally killed herself many years ago]].
* ''Manga/{{Necromance}}'': Shibuki (undead) and Safina (saintess) are engaged. Although, they fell in love before Shibuki died and both are looking for a way to break the curse that made him an undead because Safina's holy power makes it impossible for him to touch her in his current state.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Fifteen years ago, the undebatably undead vampire Evangeline stalked Nagi, who got sick of it and cursed her to remain on the Mahora school grounds for a few years, but forgot to let her out before eventually disappearing ten years ago. In the present, she attacks his son Negi out of irritation, but eventually ends up getting treated somewhere between his primary teacher and a potential love interest. Later on, Negi learns a DangerousForbiddenTechnique created by Evangeline, which only undying beings like her should be able to use because normal humans become corrupted. As a result, Negi becomes an immortal demon of the same kind as Evangeline and he says he's happy to be the same as her now. [[spoiler:In one AlternateTimeline shown in the SequelSeries, Negi and Evangeline do develop a romantic relationship in the future.]]
** Minor character Sayo, a ghost haunting the school, also seems to have feelings Negi in her first chapters. However, in her case absolutely nothing comes of it, not even real ShipTease or a pactio.
* [[StalkerWithACrush Gosunkugi]] from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' developed a crush on [[CuteGhostGirl Kogane]] while they spent time together during an episode. [[spoiler: But at the end, he gets over it and continues to stalk Akane.]]
* ''Manga/{{Rinne}}'' has a girl meet a half-shinigami and they eventually start seeing each other in romantic lights.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'':
** Boy meets vampire; she turns him into a ghoul, albeit accidentally. This doesn't burden the relationship, despite creating the extreme likelihood of him turning into a mindless berserker. [[spoiler:Eventually, Boy becomes a full vampire himself.]]
** And of course, Boy also meets [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]], [[CuteWitch Witch]] [[HotWitch (twice!)]], [[AnIcePerson and Yuki-Onna]]. And although Boy makes it clear that he's only interested in meeting Vampire, [[UnwantedHarem they make it equally clear they don't care]]. Later, boy [[HoYay meets a not gay]] [[SummonMagic Yasha]] who would support [[MarryThemAll polyamory]] as part of his effort to recruit them all into his family's [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs supernatural Triad]]. And Vampire's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered]] {{Tsundere}} [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Side]] reminds all of them to [[CurbStompBattle know their place]].
* ''Manga/{{Sankarea}}'': Boy obsessed with the undead meets girl, girl falls off cliff and dies, girl becomes zombie, zombie-girl becomes freeloader in boy's house.
* Gender-inverted in ''Manga/ToiletBoundHanakoKun''. The story starts off when Nene, a human girl, summons Hanako, a ghost.
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' plays with this trope. The Ghouls in question aren't undead, but have many of the hallmarks with a HorrorHunger and regenerative abilities.
** The entire series begins when CuteBookworm Kaneki meets a sweet girl named [[FemmeFatale Rize]] [[WoundedGazelleGambit Kamishiro]], and asks her on a date. Unfortunately, their date ends with her trying to eat him. He ends up as a HalfHumanHybrid, after both are mortally wounded and her organs are transplanted into him. Seducing and eating attractive young men turns out to have been Rize's preferred hunting method.
** Later, human-turned-half-Ghoul Kaneki and born-Ghoul Touka are mutually attracted and wind up together. Similarly human woman Mado Akira and [[spoiler:Koutarou Amon, captured and turned into a half-Ghoul]].
** Kimi falls in love with Nishiki, and later learns that he's a Ghoul after he almost attacks her. Their relationship seems to have only been strengthened by this incident.
** A human woman named Ukina met a handsome man named Kuzen, that happened to be a Ghoul. She turned out to be okay with this. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he was forced to kill her to protect their HalfHumanHybrid child and went on to become BigGood Yoshimura while their child became the BigBad]].
* ''Manga/UQHolder'':
** This happened in Santa's backstory. Boy meets {{Necromancer}} ghost girl, boy gets murdered by petty bullies, ghost girl revives the boy as a RevenantZombie.
** Technically, this applies to the human girls in the UnwantedHarem of the main hero Touta, an immortal ArtificialHuman turned into a (pseudo) vampire by Evangeline from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' mentioned above. However, nothing comes out of the human girls' crushes since Touta only shows real attraction towards the fellow immortal girls that are in love with him.
* ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'' has two separate relationships: Professor and [[spoiler:Tenebraum, the RevenantZombie living in the hotel's basement]], and the manga artist Haraki and [[spoiler:Mercelo, the ghost in his hotel room]].
* ''Manga/{{Wirbelwind}}'': Girl meets ordinary boy (initially), who then turns into undead, but it's all to the better because she's a [[OurElvesAreDifferent Dark Elf]] and now they don't need to {{Wangst}} about [[MayflyDecemberRomance their lifespans]] and incompatible alignments and just adventure together. And fuck, of course, because that's an ecchi adventure manga by the famous H-artist Makoto Fujisaki.
* ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'': Spirit medium Kogarashi meets CuteGhostGirl Yuuna. The two fall in love and it's revealed they can have children because spirit genes are all that's needed in cases of those with godlike spiritual power like Kogarashi.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The framing device of the Creator/NeilGaiman story "The Hunt" is an old man telling his granddaughter a story. Turns out, the story is meant to educate her about why it is a bad idea for her, [[spoiler: a werewolf]], to continue her relationship with her [[spoiler:human]] boyfriend. Or at least, that's what she thinks is the point of the story. It's hinted that her mind was too preoccupied with her own situation to catch the other possible messages in her grandfather's story.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Defied when a pair of [[OutlawCouple Bonnie and Clyde]] wannabes run into [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]] in the Cursed Earth. They're so high on drugs during their killing spree that they don't even seem to notice that their companion is a bit on the lifeless side. The girl actually offers herself to their new friend after her boyfriend goes to sleep, but he just shoves his claw through her chest, pointing out that he's long past ''that'' particular stage.
* In ''ComicBook/LoriLovecraft'', the InnBetweenTheWorlds known as Voodoo Mansion is run (if a word like 'run' can be applied to location like Voodoo Mansion) by lovers Zelda and Horatio who act as hosts and caretakers. Zelda is a human parapsychologist, and her boyfriend/test subject Horatio is a particularly self-aware and independently minded zombie.
* ''ComicBook/{{Madman}}'' has a normal girl in love with a dead guy who looks weird enough in the costume he almost always wears, but beneath that mask is a person who looks very much like a corpse.
* In the ''Cherry Comics'' parody of Creator/AnneRice, Cherry and Ellie have sex with a vampire, a mummy and a ghost.
* The basic plot of every ''ComicBook/MyBoyfriendIsAMonster'' graphic novel goes like this: Girl meets guy (usually one or both of them are [[NewTransferStudent new students]]). Girl and guy fall in love. Guy turns out to be a supernatural creature of some kind (whether it be a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]], or a modern-day JekyllAndHyde).
* The main plot of Creator/{{Tokyopop}}'s OELManga ''My Dead Girlfriend''.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Darla Aquista, who was already a StalkerWithACrush with heavy shades of EntitledToHaveYou for Tim before her death, is brought back as a superpowered undead magic using assassin who ''thinks'' she's dating Tim after he agrees to have a meal with her because she refuses to take no for an answer when he makes it clear that he still has no interest in dating her.
* In ''ComicBook/XForce''/''ComicBook/XStatix'', RevenantZombie superheroine Dead Girl has a casual sexual relationship with her living human team-mate Anarchist.
* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'': Golden Gail was in a relationship with the undead former supervillain Sherlock Frankenstein before she became trapped on the Farm. She misses him dearly. [[spoiler:They get to reunite and be happy together at the end of the series.]]
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' fan art, Gumball/[[CuteGhostGirl Carrie]] is [[http://gumballxcarriefans.deviantart.com/ a popular pairing]].
* Novembersmith's RPS fan-novel ''Fanfic/TheAnatomyOfAFall'' is based on a boy meets ghost scenario.
* In ''Fanfic/AtGatesEdge,'' Roy meets [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]], a poltergeist that lives in his office. They become good friends and Roy manages to invite the ghost to live with him as a roommate.
* ''Fanfic/GhostghostIknowyoulivewithinme'': [[Franchise/MassEffect Turian]] meets human girl. Girl dies, becomes a ghost and stays with Turian. They fall in love. Girl comes back to life and forgets their time together, somewhat...
* ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'': Gamzee has exchanged flirtatious comments with Laneen, the ghost of a troll who is [[BrotherSisterIncest probably his half-sister]]. Trolls lack an incest taboo, which doesn't help much, especially since both of them were sexually abused by the troll who turned out to be their mother (or as close as one can get to one with troll reproduction) and [[OffingTheOffspring said mother killed Laneen]].
* ''Fanfic/HordeChampion'': Anevay, a living elf, enters a romantic relationship with Sylvanas, an undead elf.
* ''Fanfic/NotCompletelyAltogetherHere'' is themed around the romance between Elphaba and Glinda, the girl that ''would'' have been her university roomie if she hadn't died a semester before Elphaba transferred. Glinda is a ghost but Elphaba can touch her and, after a few chapters, see her as well.
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' [[BadFuture Dark World Arc]] (taking place in an alternate timeline were Discord [[TheBadGuyWins won]]), Discord inflicted Apple Bloom with the [[VideoGame/StoryOfTheBlanks same curse as Sunny Town]] and is thus basically a zombie. Despite this, she somehow married a stallion named Lance and the Apple Pies are her descendants. Exactly ''how'' this worked is unknown as the curse was not broken until her death by RapidAging when it was finally broken, but they were HappilyMarried and the PowerOfLove was involved.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
** Fanworks focusing on the relationship between [[HermitGuru Seiga Kaku]] and her {{jiangshi}}, Yoshika Miyako, tend to lean heavily into this trope. In some works the two are depicted as having known each other since before Yoshika's demise, with Seiga keeping her reanimated corpse due to being unable to let go. In others they're depicted as never having met prior to Yoshika's resurrection but Seiga loving her "cute puppet" for the brainless, decaying, hollowed mockery of life that she is anyway.
** Due to one of Seiga's spell cards being named "Yang Xiaogui," a Chinese necromancy which [[EvilerThanThou enslaves vengeful spirits by using them to reanimate fetus corpses]] — which is quite a lot of evil squeezed into one single spell — as well as her already established fan characterization as a [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]], the introduction of [[UndeadChild Eika Ebisu, the spirit of a miscarried child,]] almost instantly started featuring fan art of Seiga preying on the kid, thus adding another layer of depravity to Gensoukyou's Wicked Hermit.
* The [[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]] series takes this beyond the [[WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} source material]]'s limitations. It's played with, however, since by the end of the first story, Lydia is [[spoiler:partially a ghoul in her own right, and BJ is [[ItMakesSenseInContext partly alive again]].]]
* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': While fighting Kay’la in the beachside cave, a black dragon gripes that her combative attitude makes him less interested in killing and resurrecting her as his undead trophy wife. Sometime later, after she beats him, he tracks her down and humiliates her in front of the whole city as revenge for “embarrassing him in front of his husbands and wives” (implied to be the skeletons and zombies Kay’la encountered in the cave with him).
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In Creator/TimBurton's ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', the boy meets a dead girl, and ends up [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally married]] to her. [[spoiler:However, he ultimately winds up in a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage with his living fiancée]].
* The romance between [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Mavis Dracula]] and TokenHuman Jonathan is the central premise of ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Creator/TimBurton must like it a lot -- ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' tries to marry the 16-year-old Lydia in the movie. (The AnimatedAdaptation handles it a bit differently.)
* ''Film/{{Bit}}'': Laurel meets Izzy and they hit it off. Then it turns out Izzy is a vampire, biting Laurel and transforming her. Laurel doesn't mind after the initial shock wears off, joining the {{lesbian vampire}} group which Izzy's a part of.
* ''Film/{{Byzantium}}'' has Frank meet and subsequently fall for vampire Eleanor.
* ''Film/{{Casper}}'' has a PuppyLove version of girl meets ghost.
* ''Film/AChineseGhostStory'' revolves around the human protagonist, Nip, who is forced to spend a night in a derelict old temple, where he inevitably falls in love with a mysterious young woman who turns out to be a ghost.
* ''Film/DerPhilosoph'': Georg the writer has fallen in with three, count 'em, three gorgeous ladies, roommates who all want to have sex with him. He puzzles about his mysterious luck for a while until Franziska, the one he's actually having sex with, tells him the truth. After telling Georg that it's perfectly OK for him to have sex with all three of them, she reveals that the three ladies are "agents in time", immortal beings that flit back and forth from one time to another time. Later, another of the women describes them as "goddesses". They may be Muses, or they may be the three Graces, but in any event they have taken Georg under their wing and they're going to nurture his talents.
* ''Film/TheEnchantress'', where a warrior rescues a DamselInDistress, resulting in the two of them inevitably falling in love. Unfortunately for ''him'', the damsel's mother turns out to be a ghost who died while pregnant with her, and gave birth to her as a spirit.
* ''Film/{{Endless}}'': Riley and Chris, who had a relationship while he was alive, continue their romance when he's dead as a ghost (as much as possible).
* ''Film/Ghost1990'' features a romance between a living woman and her dead boyfriend.
* The classic 1947 film ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' (not so much the TV show) does indeed involve a love triangle ''and'' the ghost [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy leaving his beloved to the other man]] [[spoiler: ... who A) is already married and B) is a HandsomeLech who has had numerous affairs already. All ends happily, though.]]
* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' has a (mostly) deleted scene where Ray finds a ghost of a woman wearing a white dress who has been dead for 150 years (we say "mostly" because a piece of the scene still made it through: it's the part in the "business is booming" montage in which Ray is lying in a bed and something invisible opens his fly).
* ''Film/InnocentBlood'': Undercover detective meets... vampire (no points for guessing that).
-->''"I take lives."\\
"Ya, well, if you were perfect, you wouldn't still be single."''
* In ''Film/IMarriedAWitch'', an ordinary guy falls in love with a nearly 300,000-year-old witch.
* ''Film/LetMeIn'' shows a sweet love story. Owen and Abby fall in love, but Abby is a vampire. At the end of the film, they both leave the city where Owen lived because they want to be together.
* ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'': Another PuppyLove version, though a very dark one. Boy meets a strange young girl who turns out to be a vampire. [[ChildhoodMarriagePromise Childhood love]]/[[AxCrazy violent deaths]] ensue.
* ''Film/TheLostBoys'': Boy meets (half) vampire and the gang of goth biker punk vampires who turned her. Hilarity -- and carnage -- ensues.
* ''Film/MyBoyfriendsBack'' is about a boy who is killed, and just before he dies the girl he's in love with tells him that she'd go on a date with him if he recovered. [[ResurrectedRomance So he comes back]] as a zombie in order to get that date.
* ''Film/NearDark'': Boy meets vampire and her family of psychotic hillbilly bloodsuckers. Carnage ensues.
* ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'' by Creator/CliveBarker has the main character Boone/Cabal returning from the dead after being shot repeatedly by police and later continuing his romance with his girlfriend.
* ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss''. The fact that Mary Lou is a ghost doesn't turn Alex off, it's her... [[AxCrazy antisocial behavior]].
* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead3'': There's a romance between a boy and his zombified girlfriend, whom he resurrected with the Trioxin after she died in a motorcycle accident.
* ''Film/ScaryMovie 2'': Shorty encounters a corporal ghost with an overly tongue who's a real {{butterface}}. He immediately jumps into bed with her by solving the problem with a paper bag.
* ''Film/{{Ugetsu}}'': Genjuro's lover, Lady Wakasa, turns out to be a ghost seeking the love that she never found in her short mortal life.
-->'''Genjuro:''' I never knew such pleasure existed!
* ''Film/Underworld2003'': Boy meets vampire [[spoiler:and turns into a [[FurAgainstFang werewolf]] himself]].
* ''Film/WarmBodies'': R, a zombie, becomes attracted to living woman Julie as a result of him eating her boyfriend's brain. [[spoiler:This results in him slowly regaining his humanity, and she eventually reciprocates his attraction.]]
* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': Lena becomes a vampire, after she falls for Tom, the human police detective after her. [[spoiler:The couple get together and run away at the end.]]
* ''Film/Zombies2018'': Zombie football player Zed and human cheerleader Addison fall in love.
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[[folder:Jokes]]
* An old joke about a man who married an undead girl and is very deeply in love with her. Not because of her beauty (she's a rotten corpse) or kindness (she's still a flesh-eating ghoul), but because of the worms that he plucks out of her body. Although, of course, only a fellow ''fisherman'' would ever understand him.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
** Boy meets [[HeadlessHorseman Headless Horsewoman]] and other boy meets Headless Horsewoman's head.
** Boy meets buxom girl symbiotically joined to a demon sword and controlling a pseudo-zombie horde.
* ''Literature/IsThisAZombie:'' Boy meets {{Necromancer}}, boy gets murdered by a SerialKiller, boy gets revived by said Necromancer, then boy meets MagicalGirl and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Vampire Ninjas]] and [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally marries one of them]]. And another one and a Magical Girl with multiple lives [[spoiler:who turns out to be the SerialKiller and [[VillainousCrush yet takes a liking to him]]]].
* ''Literature/{{Maburaho}}'': Being killed doesn't stop [[spoiler:Kazuki]] from coming back as a ghost and still having a harem of love interests.
* ''Literature/Overlord2012'': Albedo is passionately in love with her master, Lord Momonga, and wants to bear his children. The fact that he's a lich, which means that he very definitely lack the parts required to accomplish such a thing, is something she tends to disregard. Justified in that she's a former MMO NPC who was written that way (and he only intended it to be a cute and fun thing, since the original MMO had limitations on NPC behavior anyway). His other servant, the vampire Shalltear, also lusts for him (and she wasn't programmed for it, so it's apparently a trait of her own).
* Ancient Chinese literature quite often features stories of men falling in love with [[AsianFoxSpirit fox spirits]] or ghosts (or, in one case, living quite happily in a three-way marriage with a fox spirit ''and'' a ghost). At least one story features a man having sex with the spirit of a butterfly (although she was in human form at the time).
* ''Literature/AnnaDressedInBlood'': A ghost-hunting teenage boy travels to a new town to dispatch a particularly troublesome ghost. They fall in love instead.
* In Maggie Furey's Aurian books, [[spoiler: Aurian's lover]] dies, but spends the rest of the series jumping in and out of death trying to protect and help her, despite the fact that she's found a new love by then. Death is understandably not very happy about this, and tries to claim all three of them.
* Inverted in ''Literature/BearingAnHourglass'': Orlene, a beautiful and intelligent woman, is technically married to a ghost named Gawain, who needs to carry on his family line. So the ghost tries constantly to set her up with suitors, to produce the heir he needs so he can pass on. However, she has never seen and cannot see Gawain.
* ''Literature/BloodsuckingFiends'': Boy meets freshly turned vampire on the rebound.
* ''Literature/BoneSong'' features some steamy sex scenes between the human protagonist and [[AttractiveZombie a beautiful zombie woman]]. When he learns that she's undead, he's a bit shocked that he's just had sex with a zombie (she [[{{Lampshaded}} lampshades]] it herself: "Haven't you ever fucked a zombie before?"); however, he gets over it very quickly, and right after that they spend an even more passionate night of love.
* ''Literature/{{Cabal}}'' by Clive Barker, the book that the film ''Nightbreed'' was based on. The book features a graphic scene between [[{{Necrophilia}} the corpse]] of the protagonist Boone/Cabal and his girlfriend.
* ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'': Laura is captivated by Carmilla, who unbeknownst to her is a vampire. While Laura thinks of Carmilla as a friend, without any apparent erotic component, Carmilla declares several times that she is in love with Laura.
* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfAReluctantNecromancer'': Protagonist necromancer raises dead girl back to life, who happens to be an assassin too, girl tries to seduce necromancer but eventually falls in love with him.
* ''Literature/DemonInMyView'' by Creator/AmeliaAtwaterRhodes features girl-meets-vampire.
** Somewhat different, as well, in that it is also boy-meets-something. Aubrey's fascination with her arises from his inability to understand what exactly she is, since she appears to have some level of psychic abilities and intimate knowledge of a world she has never personally experienced, as evident through the accuracy of the novel she has had published about Aubrey himself.
* The title story of John Bennett's collection of Charleston, South Carolina folklore ''The Doctor to the Dead'' features a young doctor named Heinrich Karl Ryngo who decides he is going to treat the dead rather than the living. During one of his trips to a local cemetery, he encounters the beautiful ghost of a young woman named Helen. He falls in love with her and, despite her protests that their romance could go nowhere, visits with her every night until finally he keeps her from her grave until after the sun comes up and the cock crows. As the dead are forbidden to be out at that time, she then disintegrates into dust, causing Ryngo to become totally unhinged. He spends the rest of his life trying to bring her back.
* The mortal form that the protagonist of ''Literature/{{Dogsbody}}'' is cast down into is the product of a Cŵn Annwn mating with a Labrador, though the exact status of said {{Hellhound}}s is unclear, as they can breed amongst themselves and apparently die.
* ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'': Fafhrd's ghoulfriend Kreeshka. Minor twist in that Leiber's ghouls are a race, not undead humans. Still, they look like skeletons with organs over them and they eat human flesh.
* An ''attempt'' at this kicks off the plot of ''Literature/TheGhostBride'' by Malaysian author Yangsze Choo. A recently dead young man wants to marry the protagonist, so he haunts his mother into proposing a ghost bride deal. (This is an actual tradition that was once observed, though not often. The basic idea was that marriage would put a troublesome ghost to rest.) The protagonist, however, is vehemently opposed to marrying him, both because he's dead and because he's kind of a JerkAss, so while he tries to court her and sets up an engagement dinner, they don't actually get married.
* "Literature/TheGhostOfPhilinnion": Philinnion, a girl who has been dead for several months, visits Machates, a young man who stays in her father's house because she loves him, and the two have an affair without Machates realizing that Philinnion is an undead.
* Played with in ''Literature/GhostRoads''. Rose does sometimes have sex with the living, but only when she's wearing a coat, which makes her functionally alive until sunrise (or she takes off the coat). The only boy she ever truly loved was Gary, her boyfriend before she died, and [[spoiler:after he dies they're TogetherInDeath]].
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'': In "The Ghost Next Door" book, girl meets boy, boy accidentally passes through girl, and [[spoiler: girl is actually a ghost]].
* ''Literature/TheGravesavers'' by Canadian author Sheree Fitch had a girl met a boy, who [[spoiler: turned out to be a ghost from the wreck of the RMS Atlantic.]]
* ''Literature/TheHauntedBookshopMysteries'' by Creator/AliceKimberly features this on the side. Penelope owns a bookshop haunted by Jack, a 1940's detective, who was killed on the premises way back when. Together, they solve murders and have... ''[[UnresolvedSexualTension something]]'' going on between them.
* ''Literature/TheImmortalRules'' has as its protagonist a newly turned vampire struggling with her new life in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic world]]. This trope comes to the fore when she meets and eventually falls in love with the [[PreachersKid adopted son]] of a priest leading a small group of survivors to find a legendary city. Unfortunately both the priest and his son believe that [[ChurchMilitant vampires are unholy demons that must be destroyed without hesitation]], so it makes the reveal a little awkward to say the least. [[spoiler: though by the end, he has at least accepted her vampirism once he knows the [[EmergencyTransformation story]] [[WhatHaveIBecome behind it]].]]
* Gender inverted and played with in ''Literature/InCryptid''. Martin Baker is a [[FrankensteinMonster revenant]] and FriendlyZombie who's HappilyMarried to Angela, a [[HumanOutsideAlienInside psychic wasp who outwardly looks completely human]]. They got married 9 years after he was revived, and have three HappilyAdopted children: one human, one bogeyman, and one the same species as Angela.
* In ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'', TheAce of the series once mentioned that for most people the touch of a ghost is very unpleasant, but he must disagree and offhandedly adds, "if I'll ever want to vary my life with a dalliance, living lasses have no chance". That's from a wizard who once enchanted a deck of cards so that ghosts can handle it without problems and non-enspelled humans can't touch it. [[ForScience Just to see if he can]] turn into a "ghost" a thing that never lived to begin with.
* ''Literature/LetTheRightOneIn'': Young boy meets apparently-young vampire, and, as with the movie version, puppy love + carnage ensues.
* This happens with the main character and a ghost named Jesse in ''Literature/TheMediator'' series.
* ''Literature/ThePeonyLantern'': Boy meets ghost. She takes him with her. Although it may have just been an elaborate hoax made up by his servant so he can steal a solid gold talisman from the local temple.
* Creator/CJCherryh's Russian trilogy:
** In ''Rusalka'', Pyetr, one of the two main characters, falls in love with Eveshka, a Rusalka and the title character. A rusalka is the ghost of a drowned woman that devours human life to remain in the world. And it's mutual. [[spoiler:She is brought back from the dead at the end of the book]].
** In ''Yvgenie'', Pyetr's daughter Ilyanna [[spoiler:(her mother is Eveshka)]] is caught in a love triangle between a ghost she grew up knowing [[spoiler:and who also happens to be the man who murdered her mother, having been redeemed during the second book,]] and a boy she rescues from drowning. [[spoiler:In the end she gets both of them due to Kavi (the ghost) possessing the boy to save his life, and then due to complicated magical circumstances becoming unable to leave him. They manage well enough and are both so smitten with her that everyone comes out happy in the end.]] It's got to be one of the strangest resolutions to a love triangle ever.
* In ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'', it is more a case of Girl Meets Living But Is Rejected Then Proceeds To Assist In The Murder Of Him And His Family Without Him Knowing, He Then Returns From The Dead And Girl Still Loves Him And Is Rejected Even After Her Heel-Face Turn.
* The short story "Literature/TomorrowsGhost" by Creator/RChetwyndHayes is based around a romance between a Regency-era woman and a modern-day (1980s) man, each of whom believes the other to be a ghost. It turns out that [[spoiler:in a time paradox, back in the woman's own day, she killed herself because she could not be with the man from the future and was being forced into a marriage with someone else - thus is a ghost in the present.]]
* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Girl meets vampire and werewolf and love triangle ensues.
* ''Literature/TheVampiresBeautifulDaughter'': Rebecca is a half-vampire, and has to choose between undeath with her father and vampire friends or a human life with her human boyfriend Johnny. The story is told from Johnny's point of view.
* ''Literature/WarmBodies'': Zombie eats boy, gains his memories, falls for his girlfriend. [[AbductionIsLove Then]] [[InterspeciesRomance it]] [[AMatchMadeInStockholm gets]] [[DeusSexMachina weird.]]
* ''Zombie Lover'' in the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series has the titular zombie in love with a living man.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'': Tate is a ghost, and Violet is alive[[spoiler:... until she commits suicide, and ends up a ghost as well]].
* ''Series/BanjunDrama'': "When She Opens Her Eyes." The main character in that one encounters the wandering spirit of a girl in a coma that only he can see. He ends up falling for her - [[spoiler:even after he realizes he's the one who put her in that situation]]. Of course, when she finds out, their relationship stops going so well.
* ''Series/BeingHumanUS'': Sally is a beautiful young woman who's [[CuteGhostGirl also a ghost]]. More than a few mortal men are into her. She's unable to interact with them physically though until she [[DemonicPossession possesses the body of a living woman]], having sex that way. This is bad actually since she [[BedTrick doesn't tell anyone]], but the show [[DoubleStandardRapeSciFi doesn't seem to realize this]].
* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' focused on a man who was not only married to a witch, but attracted many supernatural women (including a nymph, a VainSorceress, and a demon CatGirl).
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Buffy (living person, Slayer of Vampires) and Angel (Vampire).
** Pretty much every single girl Xander's ever dated besides Cordelia and Willow has been some form of supernatural/undead. It was even lampshaded at times. HilariousInHindsight is that even [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Cordelia]] and [[BewareTheNiceOnes Willow]] turned into that (a half-demon turned higher power and a witch, respectively).
* ''Series/Charmed1998'': In one of the first episodes, Piper crosses passed with a recently deceased man named Mark who asks for her help to stop his spirit being consumed by a demon. As they work together there's a definite spark between them, but Mark ultimately has to pass on to the afterlife and leave Piper behind.
* The ABC/BBC co-production ''Series/DeadGorgeous'' plays with this by having "Living Ghost" Rebecca fall for living boy David. However, he seems to not be particularly interested.
* In ''Series/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'', the ghostly Captain Gregg falls in love with the lovely Carolyn Muir, and the feeling seems to be reciprocated on her part.
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": Lestat de Lioncourt, a handsome vampire, falls madly in love with Louis de Pointe du Lac, a human, and the former courts the latter for a few months before they share their FirstKiss and TheirFirstTime. A few weeks later, Lestat [[LoveConfession proclaims his love]] for Louis and he proposes that they enter a CommonLawMarriage of EternalLove. (Both homosexuality and interracial marriages were unlawful in the early 20th century Louisiana, so no legal options were available to them to formalize their union.) Louis expresses his assent by kissing Lestat, their OfficialKiss being their final intimate act before Lestat turns Louis into a vampire.
** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]": The cute vampire Claudia becomes enamoured with a young mortal man named Charlie. He gives her a [[FlowersOfRomance bouquet of chrysanthemums]], they eat ice cream sundaes on their first (and only) date, and then they canoodle in his carriage. Their romance is short-lived because Claudia has a voracious appetite and never learned moderation, so she [[AccidentalMurder consumes all of Charlie's blood until he dies]].
* Philip from ''Series/InTheFlesh'' has managed to become enamored with a zombie, despite he himself harbouring anti-zombie views. It's gotten so bad he visits a zombie brothel and has one of the women dress up as her and spend the night watching [[ChickFlick Chick Flicks]] with her.
* ''Series/KamenRider''
** Since the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Orphnochs]] of ''Series/KamenRider555'' are basically [[RevenantZombie Revenant Zombies]], this was bound to happen. For one couple, Keitarou and Yuka, the two are basically in a pen pal relationship, never having met each other in person, and the times they do encounter each other, they don't realize they are their chatmates. When they do, the girl had already become an Orphnoch in her first appearance early in the show, albeit an anti-heroic one, and the boy himself has come to terms that not all Orphnochs are bad by nature. Unfortunately, they never get to enjoy their proper romance as [[spoiler: she's gunned down by an unscrupulous private squad meant to exterminate all Orphnochs]]. The other is Mari and [[spoiler: Takumi]], moreso in the NonSerialMovie. In the show, the two are close, but not as explicitly romantically involved.
** Also written by the same writer as ''555'', ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' also has this, replacing zombies with stained glass-based vampires called [[MonsterOfTheWeek Fangires]]. In the 1986 setting, the Fangire Queen's role is specifically to execute any Fangire that attempts this. We don't see her do this many times before she finds herself in one with the {{Deuteragonist}}, Otoya Kurenai. Their short-lived romance, [[spoiler: ending due to Otoya dying from using the not-safe-for-human-use Dark Kiva powers to save people]] produces the show's titular hero in the present-day setting. Other than that, an early MonsterOfTheWeek herself fell in love with Otoya and his music.
** [[RealLifeWritesThePlot While it wasn't handled that well or given much focus due to the actress' busy schedule]], [[MysteriousWaif Koyomi]] and Haruto, the titular ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'', are largely this. Koyomi is basically a RevenantZombie fueled by constant mana supplied by Haruto. Their bond is not explicitly romantic, due to the age demographic, but they are undeniably close, physically so, and she definitely serves as his LivingEmotionalCrutch, that much is absolutely made clear all throughout the show and beyond.
* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'': In "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E4Jenifer Jenifer]]", Frank Spivey warms to Jenifer first out of pity for her trauma and facial disfigurement, then becomes sexually obsessed with her. Jenifer, a being whose humanity is doubtful, pretends to love Frank so that he'll provide for her while she keeps her murder spree up.
* The vampire detective show ''Series/Moonlight2007'' features the romance between the main character and his human love interest.
* ''Series/MyDeadEx'':
** The show's basic premise is Ben, Charley's would-be boyfriend, accidentally dying and coming back undead while he continues attempting to win her over. [[spoiler:In the finale, Charley decides to date him.]]
** [[spoiler:Madame Fortuna is also undead, it's revealed, and has been involved with a living man for decades now.]]
* ''Series/TheRising'': Neve becomes attracted to Alex, her boyfriend's cousin, after she dies and becomes a ghost. They start a relationship despite Alex being a living woman (she's among those [[ISeeDeadPeople able to see Neve]]). Despite being dead, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Neve can touch living people]], so they're able to kiss or have sex.
* ''Series/SantaClaritaDiet'': Real-estate mogul couple Joel and Sheila have a pretty good thing going, until Sheila [[ItMakesSenseInContext eats some bad clams]] and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turns undead]]. Yet that's no reason to throw away over a decade of marriage.
* ''Series/SchoolSpirits'': Maddie, who is a spirit and [[spoiler: a living person whose body was possessed and stolen by another ghost]], romances Wally, the handsome ghost of a LovableJock who died from a broken neck after a "misplaced tackle" during a football game in 1983. Wally also develops romantic feelings for Maddie.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Happens quite a bit to the Winchesters and their allies, often undead or sometimes just monstrous or supernatural.
** Sam meets Madison, and [[spoiler: she turns out to be a werewolf.]] He also meets Ruby, and [[spoiler: she turns out to be a demon]]. In a flashback, young Sam meets Amy, [[spoiler: who is a kitsune.]] His exasperated brother even lampshades this, ironically after [[spoiler: Sam has sex with a woman Dean is sure is a Siren but turns out to be human.]]
-->'''Dean''': What is it with you and banging monster chicks?
** Dean has had a few of these himself. He meets and briefly romances Anna, [[spoiler: who turns out to be a FallenAngel]] and later has an ONS with [[spoiler: an Amazon.]]
** Castiel meets [[spoiler: a kind woman named April, who turns out to be a Reaper sent to kill him.]]
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Stefan and Damon both meet Katherine. A few hundred years later, Stefan meets Elena. Then, [[spoiler: Jeremy and Vicki, after she becomes a vampire]]. And then [[spoiler: Jeremy meets Anna, though initially she was just using him]].
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[[folder:Music]]
* "Date With A Vampire" by the Screaming Tribesmen.
* "Little Ghost" by Music/TheWhiteStripes.
* "I Walked with a Zombie" by Wednesday 13 and "She was the Teenage Zombie" by Murder Dolls. A lot of their other stuff qualifies, too.
* "A Boy, A Girl, And a Graveyard" by Music/JeremyMessersmith, though the ghost in this case is male.
* "The Zombie Song" by Stephanie Mabey. "I'd never eat your brain, I just want your heart."
* "A Romance with the Grave" by The Vision Bleak. Literal example. 'Ruthless lust without disgust, dirt and dust, a romance with the grave'
* Music/AliceCooper loves this trope. "Cold Ethyl" is a more "subtle" example, while "I Love the Dead" drops any pretense.
* Creator/AlexDay also uses this in his song "She Walks Right Through Me".
* Escape Club had a song called "I'll Be There" about a ghost who was haunting the one he loved.
-->''Don't be afraid, oh my love\\
I'll be watching you from above\\
And I'd give all the world tonight,\\
to be with you\\
Because I'm on your side,\\
And I still care\\
I may have died,\\
but I've gone nowhere\\
Just think of me,\\
And I'll be there.''
* The song "Mi novio es un zombi" ("My boyfriend is a zombie") by Alaska y Dinarama.
* Music/EmilieAutumn's "Ghost" is about a woman who is in a courtly romance with a ghost, and ponders the full effects and consequences of their relationship.
* Music/BlueOysterCult's ''I Love The Night'' is about a vampire meeting a human, and explaining she'd quite like a boyfriend who shares her interests and hobbies.
* Frehley's Comet's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q1KfHCBqYg New Kind of Lover]] is about a guy who falls in love with a ghost.
* Creator/SeananMcGuire's FilkSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHPiKX4OfnA On Dead Man's Hill]]" is from the point of view of a guy who ''deliberately seeks out'' a CuteGhostGirl to love. It's tangentially related to her ''Literature/GhostRoads'' novel series, though Rose would probably be weirded out by someone who wanted to be with her ''because'' she's a ghost.
* Possibly "Watching Over You" by King Dude, a song in which he sings to someone he loves (probably a woman and a romantic interest, given the phrase "inside your pretty head"), reassuring her that no matter how difficult things are for her, "there's a demon watching over you". King Dude has sung from the point of view of demonic beings in several songs.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' Taako falls in love with Kravitz the Grim Reaper, who shifts between looking like an extremely handsome living man and a skeleton depending on the situation. The "skeleton" part does not put Taako off in the slightest. [[spoiler:It works out pretty well for them in the end.]]
* ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'': Evelyn, a recently deceased human, gets paired up with Riley, the ghoul who ate her corpse.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Ghosts in ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' are based on the seductive ghosts of Hong Kong cinema. They're quite prone to falling in love with mortals.
* A possibility for characters in ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'', especially Galateids. On some occasions, it might help with a Promethean's Pilgrimage, but more than likely it will end very badly, thanks to their Disquiet.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** 3.5th Edition has a third-party book (''The Book of Erotic Fantasy'') about including sex in your games that has a few different mentions about sex with the undead, and even includes a magic item for those who aspire to be undead to preserve their bodies, so as to not be so... unappealing.
** Another 3.5 book, ''Libris Mortis'', presents a goddess named Evening Glory, who represents eternal love so strong that even having died and turned undead is to be only a minor inconvenience at most.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'' musical is about Wednesday falling in love with a normal boy.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Happens with Mia/Godot (and to a lesser extent other dead/alive pairings) in ''Franchise/AceAttorney''. The justification is that spirit mediums like Maya and Pearl can channel the souls of the dead, to the point of taking on their physical forms. [[PowerPerversionPotential And then just about anything could happen.]]
* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' some of the later content established that Positron was in a relationship with Numina, a hero whose body had been destroyed in the 60's but had survived as a ghost.
** Ghost Widow and Wretch fall somewhere between this and LikeBrotherAndSister.
* Taiga in ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' is initially thrilled to receive the confession of love from the cute Nanashi, but this turns sour when her arm falls off and she invites him back into her crypt. Despite the bad beginning, they actually get along decently well. She also has a route, where it seems that half the reason Taiga isn't willing to sleep with her like he would anyone else isn't just because she's cold and dead, but rather because she lacks much in the way of a sense of touch and wouldn't enjoy it. [[spoiler:But hey, that can be fixed. And it turns out she's not a zombie, she's a homunculus.]]
* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Fane the [[DemBones skeleton]] is fair game for a RomanceSidequest (or a unique [[OptionalSexualEncounter tryst]]) as an NPC companion or as a player character. His [[SenseLossSadness lack of a sense of touch]] is a hurdle that can eventually be overcome with shapeshifting magic or a MentalAffair.
* One minor sidequest in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has you searching for the journals of the necromancer Arondil. As you search the barrow he is currently squatting in, it's impossible to ignore the fact that it's populated entirely by female Draugr and ghosts. As you read his journals, it becomes clear that Arondil's interest in the female undead wasn't entirely scholarly. Apparently he finds the feel of ghostly ectoplasm arousing. Eventually you get to the end of the dungeon and find a double bed... with a female ghost "sleeping" in it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'': Lucas and [[spoiler:Carla]] fall in love, but only after the former [[spoiler:has been killed and brought back as a living corpse. Carla even becomes pregnant with the undead Lucas's child]].
* In the ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' 'verse, Ghouls are actually post-necrotic humans who have suffered extensive radiation burn damage and therefore have the appearance and smell of rotting flesh. They are therefore subject to a lot of FantasticRacism and are usually ostracized. But there are a very small number of people who actually fetishize ghouls. In [[VideoGame/Fallout2 New Reno]], hookers will demand extra for sleeping with your ghoul companion, but won’t outright refuse the encounter. In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', a casino owner asks you to specifically recruit a ghoul prostitute; whose services you can engage if you wish, and another casino named Gomorrah has a few ghoul sex workers. In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', you can romance Hancock, the "cool" ghoul.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'''s setting, ghosts who don't realize they're dead (or don't want to pass on yet) can retain the physical form they had [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve when they were alive]]. Which makes it a bit awkward when the player remembers that [[spoiler:Tidus and Yuna]] did...''something'' back before they learned the former wasn't (technically) alive.
* ''VideoGame/{{Franken}}'' includes a wedding between [[spoiler:its protagonist]] and [[spoiler:its PostFinalBoss, [[TitleDrop Franken]][[FrankensteinsMonster stein]], at the very end, which [[AltarDiplomacy winds up defusing the tension between the]] BigBad[[AltarDiplomacy , who happens to be Frankenstein's creator, and the living people of Earth]] and [[WinWinEnding neatly resolving the main conflict]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/GalGun Double Peace'', there's a CuteGhostGirl who shows up in multiple hidden locations. If you find her all ten times in a single playthrough of the True Love route, she becomes available as a potential girlfriend.
* An odd one appears in the internet flash game ''VideoGame/GuardianRock'' in which the titular rock is said to hook up with a hot spirit rock chick and they live together with numerous flower filled baths and occasional quarreling for the rest of their eternal lives.
* ''[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/krangGAMES/i-saw-her-standing-there I Saw Her Standing There]]'' has this as its premise. You have to lure a zombie girl to a cage in each level, with each "act" introducing a new gameplay twist. All the while, there is narrative text describing the love between the main characters. At the end of the game, [[spoiler: she zombifies him]], and the two sequels follow the lovebirds in this condition until they find a safe haven to live out the rest of their lives. [[spoiler: Or unlives]].
* A possibility in one of the [[MultipleEndings endings]] of ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'', in which Vayne [[WalkingTheEarth walks the earth]] with [[CuteGhostGirl Pamela]] as a travelling doctor.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'': The Joy/The Sorrow. Canonically lovers. [[spoiler: Eventually TogetherInDeath.]]
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' has Boy meets Ghost Paladin. Somehow, none of the issues that would create ever come up in the game, though it is implied that she gets a new body after you return to the world of the living.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', ghosts can be interacted with, invited to live with a family, and, yes, can produce ghost children with living Sims.
* Probably the only reason the Konpaku family in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' can consist of [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human-half-ghosts]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheWayhavenChronicles'', this is true of all of the romantic subplots. The protagonist, a human detective, can enter a relationship any of their vampiric teammates. Arguably a bit of a subversion, as the vampires featured in the series [[OurVampiresAreDifferent are not truly undead]].
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'':
** Pursuing [[spoiler: Nageki Fujishiro]] ends with [[spoiler: Nageki recovering from his GhostAmnesia and departing for the afterlife, with a heartrending apology to the heroine]].
** In the "Bad Boys Love" route of the full version, [[spoiler: the heroine is killed and her brain transplanted into a robot; the route ends with Ryouta choosing to remain with her until she can be restored]].
* ''VisualNovel/HavenfallIsForLovers'': Diego and Antonio's routes are "human meets vampire".
* In ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'', the main couple is [[YuriGenre Madison Raines, a young woman, and Abigail]], a CuteGhostGirl who died 200 years ago. Madison meets Abigail in the woods outside Eysenfeld and bonds with her despite Abigail [[CuteMute being unable to speak with her]]. [[spoiler:The two grow closer after Madison dies in a snowstorm and Abigail is able to save her spirit. In the good ending and one of the bad endings, both Madison and Abigail are restored to life. In the other bad ending, both Madison and Abigail disappear forever, but Tara believes that they're still together.]]
* In the aptly-titled VisualNovel ''Romance Is Dead'', lucky Madeline gets not just one undead love interest but ''three'': a zombie who's magically compelled to stay close to her, a very French vampire, and a friendly ghost.
* ''VisualNovel/SexAdviceSuccubus'' is about a CuteGhostGirl named Chloe. She is planning a visit with her online girlfriend for the first time, but because she is a ghost and therefore intangible, she needs Qmin's help to figure out how they will be able to have sex.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' features boy meets vampire princess among its many flavors of InterspeciesRomance.
* ''VisualNovel/WickedLawlessLove'' features a living heroine whose choice of love interests include two traditionally undead creatures, a ghost and a vampire, though in this case [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the vampire is also living]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Kev of ''Webcomic/AliceAndKev'' encounters a woman who doesn't seem to mind that he's a deranged, lecherous old hobo, and even responds favourably to his flirting. [[BittersweetEnding She vanishes when the sun comes up.]]
* Two examples in ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}'':
** A PuppyLove example is hinted at between Erma the HalfHumanHybrid StringyHairedGhostGirl and Conner, her human classmate through several comics.
** Erma's parents, the human father Sam and onryo youkai [[Literature/TheRing Sadako-expy]] mother Emiko are HappilyMarried together. Their romantic journey from first meet to falling in love to marriage [[spoiler:and the trials Emiko's human-hating DisapprovingDad put them through including ''kidnapping Emiko'' before she managed to escape]] is detailed in the "Spirit's Bloom" side story.
* The webcomic ''Webcomic/GhostFriend'' was based on having a living and undead character in a relationship.
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', Mort (a ghost) has a barely-concealed crush on Antimony (still alive). She does not reciprocate.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': After Kanaya comes back as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Rainbow Drinker]], she ends up starting a relationship with a human.
* In [[http://negamaki.thecomicseries.com/comics/40 Negamaki]] Chief Buffalo Jerky's friend Maize spends a lot of time dwelling on this. Despite both of them being dead, she's interested in [[ShipperOnDeck pairing the Chief off with Negamaki]] and asks Tamago to call her if he survives being attacked by the hell-moose.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Tsukiko is a weird mixture of this and ILoveTheDead, held together by WrongGenreSavvy. She's a necrophiliac necromancer who [[InsaneTrollLogic believes the undead are sweet, gentle beings because they are the opposite of the living and the living are bastards]], she is shown to have romantic designs for Xykon. Xykon (a lich who is perfectly willing to commit genocide under the right conditions, or [[ForTheEvulz if he gets bored enough]]) finds Tsukiko's affection incredibly gross... because [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0833.html he isn't attracted to the living.]] ([[DemBones That, and he doesn't have a penis,]] though that hasn't stopped her before.)
-->"I'm not one of those disgusting biophiliacs!"
** A bonus strip features a mummy queen who has a brief tryst with Julio Scoundrél. Unlike most examples, this isn't shown to be a pleasant experience, as it turns out she isn't a SeductiveMummy under those wrappings, and she's also riddled with at least one infectious disease.
* In ''Webcomic/TheRepositoryOfDangerousThings'' [[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Repository_of_Dangerous_Things/4863933/ Davis meets Wanderin' Laurie]], the PirateGirl Ghost.
-->'''Davis:''' ''[thinks]'' She was hot. But dead. But hot.
* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', the Princess's knight and lover is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wight wight]].
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Torg doesn't initially know that [[spoiler: Valerie]] is a vampire, and even after finding out, he initially thinks that un-living with her forever wouldn't be that bad. [[spoiler: But by the best guess, it isn't real love in either direction, and in any case he chooses to destroy her rather than turn against his friends.]]
* ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation2005''. Ace (who is also TheAce) has a lot of girls gunning for him, but the first one who actually gets with him is noncorporeal. The details of how, exactly, it works, is left mostly to imagination, with only the comment of "It's... messy."
* ''Webcomic/UndeadFriend'': One of the more bizarre examples, as the only reason for meeting said boy is for an InevitableTournament, and they can switch places at the cost of his life for Superpowers.
* ''Webcomic/UnlifeIsUnfair'' is about the other way around, a nice zombie meets a girl and falls in love with her. She only wants to be his friend though. [[spoiler: Later on she discovers feelings for him, which can be kind of harrowing.]]
* In ''Webcomic/WildeLife,'' there's some low-key but pretty obvious romance going on between [[TheProtagonist Oscar]] and [[CuteGhostGirl Sylvia]], the ghostly 1940s mathematician who haunts the house that he's renting.
* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' has [[http://xkcd.com/348/ this little comic]], where the boy's love interest seems to be a bit deader than most.
* Lydia and Betelgeuse in ''Webcomic/CobwebAndStripes'' are inching toward this. They started out not particularly liking one another, but have gradually developed a friendship and, as of the end of chapter 14, there is a definite attraction between them.
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* ''Literature/LoomingGaia'': Evan, a living human lycanthrope, and Zeffer, a vampiric elf, get together in the first story, bonding over both having a magical affliction that causes them to be shunned by society. Though it doesn't last very long, as Zeffer runs away from Evan.
* A lesbian version occurs in Creator/SeananMcGuire's Patreon short story "Inflatable Angel", in which a CuteGhostGirl meets and falls in love with a living woman.
* ''Literature/UntilMyColorFadesAway'' has two examples. Generation 4 has Firefly meet [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampberry]] princess Emerald Mist Amulet. Their daughter is also a vampberry, and meets a mortal boy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** Darwin has a crush on CuteGhostGirl Carrie. It's first seen in "Halloween" and later explored in "The Scam", which shows it to be a [[TwiceShy mutual, reluctant attraction]]. By the time of "The Matchmaker", the two finally [[OfficialCouple hook up for good]].
** "The Mirror" is about a being called the Snatcher, who is said to [[WasOnceAMan once have been a mortal]] who fell in love with a ghost woman, used magic so that he could hold her, [[TragicMonster and was turned into a monster as a side-effect.]] [[spoiler:He turns out to be Carrie's dad.]]
* While ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' avoids actual romance between a dead guy and a 12-year-old, the level to which he is obsessed with her shows exactly what Creator/TimBurton had in mind for the two of them during [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the movie]]. In one early episode, we see Beetlejuice has a huge shrine devoted to Lydia in his head. In another, he gets split in two and starts fighting himself to impress her - he only stops when he realises he's upsetting her. In another he gives Prince Vince excellent advice on how to court her, and then becomes [[CrazyJealousGuy incredibly jealous]] when it works very well.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has Tina's 'erotic friend fiction,' which as often as not involves zombies.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny is a half-ghost and he's had two full-human girls into him because and regardless of that. Paulina likes Danny's ghost superhero self, but has no interest whatsoever in his human self. Danny has a major crush on her, but doesn't like how she treats him. Sam is Danny's longterm friend and while they may have been attracted to each other before he became a half-ghost, their relationship only properly develops after Danny becomes a ghost-fighting half-ghost.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Proposition Infinity", one of the couples used to demonstrate how accepting 31st century society is are a ghost and a [[BestialityIsDepraved horse]].
* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Pinky is a ghost who has a major crush on Pac-Man.
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