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* ''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.

* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'': Tate is a ghost and Violet is alive[[spoiler:... until she commits suicide and ends up a ghost as well]].

* ''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]]. But that's no reason to throw away over a decade of marriage.

* ''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 hald-ghost.

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 normal person meets an attractive member of the opposite, uh, 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]] is fairly rare, but the pun was too good for us to resist.

** Boy meets vampire; she turns him into a ghoul, albeit accidentally. For some reason this doesn't threaten the relationship at all, despite creating the extreme likelihood of him turning into a mindless berserker. [[spoiler:Eventually, Boy becomes a full vampire himself.]]

* ''Fanfic/HordeChampion'': Or, rather, Girl Meets Ghoul. Partway through the series, Anevay (an elf, alive) enters a romantic relationship with Sylvanas (an undead elf).

* Parodied in ''Film/ScaryMovie 2'' when Shorty encounters a ghoul who's a real {{Butterface}}... but he immediately jumps into bed with her by solving the problem with a paper bag.

* ''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. Plus, they're "ghouls."

* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E4Jenifer Jenifer]]" is a deconstruction. Boy warms to Ghoul first out of pity, then becomes ''sexually'' obsessed with it. Ghoul pretends to love Boy to provide for it while Ghoul keeps murdering people.

* ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'' finally gives us a variation of this trope with an actual [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]]. Evelyn, a recently deceased human, gets paired up with Riley, the ghoul who ate her corpse. Talk about an eat-cute.

%%How does the "ghoul" part of the trope factor in?* Infamously occurs in ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' between [[spoiler: Carla and Lucas]], despite there being ''zero'' leadup [[StrangledByTheRedString whatsoever]] to it.
* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Played with, since Danny is (obviously) the ghoul (but only half-ghost. He's living ''and'' undead at the same time) and Sam(antha) is the Boy. Or rather... girl. In this case, though, Sam and Danny were friends long before he became half-ghost.
* In the "Proposition Infinity" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' one of the couples used to demonstrate how accepting 31st century society is are a ghost and a [[BestialityIsDepraved horse]].
* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'' has Pinky, a ghost who has a major crush on Pac-Man.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'': The Joy/The Sorrow. Canonically lovers. [[spoiler: Eventually TogetherInDeath.]]

** "[[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 MetaphoricalMarriage of EternalLove. Louis expresses his assent by kissing Lestat, their OfficialKiss being their final intimate act before Lestat turns Louis into a vampire.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{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.

* ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss''. The fact that [[EvilIsSexy Mary Lou]] is a ghost doesn't turn Alex off, it's her... [[AxCrazy antisocial behavior]].

* Tsukiko of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' 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 absolutely disgusting... because [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0833.html he isn't attracted to the living.]]
-->"I'm not one of those perverted biophiliacs!"

Until recently, this occurred more often with [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] or [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] than with any other form of undead creature; however, [[SeductiveMummy mummies]] and [[AttractiveZombie zombies]] are growing in popularity nowadays. Romance with ''actual'' [[OurGhoulsAreDifferent ghouls]] is fairly rare, but the pun was too good for us to resist.

** "[[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 consumes all of Charlie's blood until he dies.

* ''WebOriginal/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.

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* 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.)

* The film ''Film/Ghost1990'' features a romance between a living woman and her dead boyfriend.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' 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."

* ''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]] / [[AxeCrazy violent deaths]] ensue.
* ''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/TheLostBoys.'' Boy meets (half) vampire and the gang of goth biker punk vampires who turned her. Hilarity - and carnage - ensues.

* ''Film/NearDark.'' Boy meets vampire and her family of psychotic hillbilly bloodsuckers. Carnage ensues.

* ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss''. The fact that [[EvilIsSexy Mary Lou]] is a ghost doesn't turn Alex off, it's her... [[AxeCrazy antisocial behavior]].

* ''Film/ScaryMovie2'': Parodied when Shorty encounters a ghoul who's a real {{Butterface}}... but he immediately jumps into bed with her by solving the problem with a paper bag.

** Erma's parents, the human father Sam and onryo youkai [[Film/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.

** In "[[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 MetaphoricalMarriage of EternalLove. Louis expresses his assent by kissing Lestat, their OfficialKiss being their final intimate act before Lestat turns Louis into a vampire.
** In "[[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 consumes all of Charlie's blood until he dies.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[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 MetaphoricalMarriage of EternalLove. Louis expresses his assent by kissing Lestat, their OfficialKiss being their final intimate act before Lestat turns Louis into a vampire.

* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' (original series):
** Mitchell is a vampire, while Annie is actually a ghost.
** The third season gives us [[spoiler: Pearl and Leo, who confess their love for one another just in time for Leo to die. He and Pearl go into the afterlife together, not long after.]]

* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'': Tate is a ghost and Violet is alive[[spoiler:...until she commits suicide and ends up a ghost as well]].

* ''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)

* The vampire detective show ''Series/Moonlight2007'' features the romance between the main character and his human love interest.
* 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]].
* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E4Jenifer Jenifer]]" is a deconstruction. Boy warms to Ghoul first out of pity, then becomes ''sexually'' obsessed with it. Ghoul pretends to love Boy to provide for it while Ghoul keeps murdering people.

* ''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]]. But that's no reason to throw away over a decade of marriage.
* ''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/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'', the ghostly Captain Gregg falls in love with the lovely Carolyn Muir, and the feeling seems to be reciprocated on her part.

* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': Boy meets immortal, boy killed by immortal's pet, immortal absorbs his soul to resurrect him as a zombie--{{ahem}}--Wu.

* ''LightNovel/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/{{Twilight}}'': Girl meets vampire and werewolf and love triangle ensues.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Evan, a living human, and Zeffer, a vampire, get together in the first story. Though it doesn't last very long, as Zeffer runs away from him.

** 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]].