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* 1871 — "Charley Maiden Aunt" (''Harper's Bazaar'', March 4): Charley Knapp's aunt Penelope gets compared to the ghoul in the ''Arabian Nights'' for never showing herself until after dark.
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* 1863 — "Desert Sands" (''The Amber Gods'') by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford: A man he's just met goes on a rant to the protagonist about Mrs. Vivian, comparing her to all manner of monstrosities hiding behind beauty and allure. One such comparison goes "I remembered, when I used to see her, the beautiful Ghoul whom the Arabian prince married unawares."
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* 1866 — ''Histoires américaines'' by Édouard Auger: After taking some sea biscuits and finding several infested with bugs, the protagonist crumbles his stash into tiny pieces akin to "the size of the grains of rice that the ghoul from the ''Thousand and One Nights'' pricked with her toothpick'' in order not to accidentally eat a bug.
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* 1952 — "Food For Thought!" (''Dark Mysteries'' #10): Phil Stewart marries a white woman named Kadira who was raised by a cannibal tribe in Africa, though he does not know the cannibal part. He discovers that she sneaks out at night regularly and believes her to be two-timing him. When he follows her one night, he learns that she kills and eats people. He still tries to make their marriage work, but Kadira ends up eating herself.
