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* Van Ruijven to Griet in ''GirlWithAPearlEarring''. This includes the movie adaption as well. In both works he [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape her]], develops an obsession with her and follows her around.
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* In the sixth book, ''Literature/HarryPotter'' got a stalker in Romilda Vane, also a LoonyFan. Romilda additionally showed some signs of being an AlphaBitch.
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** Severus Snape was a StalkerWithACrush for Lily Potter (nee Evans) even when they were children, although she liked him once she noticed him. They remained friends until he started hanging out with Voldemort sympathisers, she tried to warn him against them to no avail, and he called her a FantasticSlur. Add to that her choosing to marry Snape's school rival James and [[spoiler: Snape unintentionally setting Voldemort on her tail, which got her killed]]...
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** In the sixth book, Harry got a stalker in Romilda Vane,also who doubles as a LoonyFan. Romilda additionally showed some signs of being an AlphaBitch.
**Severus [[spoiler:Severus Snape was a StalkerWithACrush for Lily Potter (nee Evans) even when they were children, although she liked him once she noticed him. They remained friends until he started hanging out with Voldemort sympathisers, sympathizers, she tried to warn him against them to no avail, and he called her a FantasticSlur. Add to that her choosing to marry Snape's school rival James and [[spoiler: Snape unintentionally setting Voldemort on her tail, which got her killed]]...
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* Norman who watches Lily's public-access show and persistently begs her to [[FootFocus show her feet on-camera]], in ''ThePrincessDiaries''.
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* Grima Wormtongue from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' definitely qualifies as this in regards to Eowyn, albeit combined with LoveMakesYouEvil.
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* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/BlackColossus", an EldritchAbomination that WasOnceAMan toward Princess Yasmela. Visits her in the night with promises to make her his queen.
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* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': Richard Rahl has a stalker, and she's a gorgeous [[DarkMagicalGirl sorceress]] with [[BlackMagic Subtractive Magic]] dedicated to [[DarkActionGirl serving the Imperial Order]] and [[CombatSadomasochist punishing herself]], who blasts melon-sized holes through the chests of people who get on her bad side, and is completely and hopelessly in love with him. [[spoiler: Luckily for him, he manages to sway her to pull a HighHeelFaceTurn and change sides through the power of carving a statue of "Life" and treating her to more than one CharacterFilibuster, and afterwards she becomes his BlackMagicianGirl lieutenant.]] Just another day in the story of the SwordOfTruth.
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* Poor [[BrokenBird Sansa Stark]] from ASongOfIceAndFire seems to attract these types of men, ranging from an emotionally fragile BloodKnight, who seems quite confounded by his attraction to her, to a MagnificentBastard {{Yandere}} using her as a ReplacementGoldfish for her mother, the woman he'd obsessively loved since childhood.
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** Merope Gaunt has been stalking the handsome Muggle Tom Riddle for days before her family found out. They didn't take it well. [[spoiler: Later, she bewitched and married Tom and the two of them become Voldemort's parents]]
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* In the sixth book, Literature/HarryPotter got a stalker in Romilda Vane, also a LoonyFan. Romilda additionally showed some signs of being an AlphaBitch.
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** Severus Snape was a StalkerWithACrush for Lily Potter (nee Evans) even when they were children, although she liked him once she noticed him. They remained friends until he started hanging out with Voldemort sympathisers, she tried to warn him against them to no avail, and he called her a FantasticSlur. Add to that her choosing to marry Snape's school rival James and [[spoiler: Snape uninentionally setting Voldemort on her tail, which got her killed]]...
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** Severus Snape was a StalkerWithACrush for Lily Potter (nee Evans) even when they were children, although she liked him once she noticed him. They remained friends until he started hanging out with Voldemort sympathisers, she tried to warn him against them to no avail, and he called her a FantasticSlur. Add to that her choosing to marry Snape's school rival James and [[spoiler: Snapeuninentionally unintentionally setting Voldemort on her tail, which got her killed]]...
** Severus Snape was a StalkerWithACrush for Lily Potter (nee Evans) even when they were children, although she liked him once she noticed him. They remained friends until he started hanging out with Voldemort sympathisers, she tried to warn him against them to no avail, and he called her a FantasticSlur. Add to that her choosing to marry Snape's school rival James and [[spoiler: Snape
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** Marius also displays stalker-ish tendencies towards Cosette. He slept with what he thought was her hankerchief over his face (to make things more creepy, it turned out to be Jean Valjean's).
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* Fenwick from ''VillainsByNecessity'' is a womanizer to begin with, but when he spies Kaylana among the villain protagonists, he immediately decides that he must save her (and give her a personal tour of his quarters) because she's [[BeautyEqualsGoodness attractive]]. Doesn't sound creepy? While his constant spying is explainable as keeping tabs on the villains' progress, he obsesses over her presence in specific far more than professionally required. And then resorts to kidnapping her. ''By dragon''.
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* The Sheik of ''TheSheik'', who doesn't even bother to stalk his intended very long before outright kidnapping her. 'Crush' might be a bit of a misnomer, though; he just wants to rape her. Which he does.
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* The Sheik of ''TheSheik'', ''Literature/TheSheik'', who doesn't even bother to stalk his intended very long before outright kidnapping her. 'Crush' might be a bit of a misnomer, though; he just wants to rape her. Which he does.
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* Some characters (and [[{{YMMV}} a small minority of readers]]) take Michael’s behavior towards Angel in ''Literature/RedeemingLove'' this way. Although [[PlatonicProstitution his methods of contacting her]] are entirely legitimate, he continues to romantically pursue her even after she vehemently denies wanting anything to do with him. In-story this is {{Justified}} by the fact that he’s trying to rescue her from life as a StepfordSmiler SexSlave.
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* Some characters (and [[{{YMMV}} a small minority of readers]]) take Michael’s behavior towards Angel in ''Literature/RedeemingLove'' this way. Although [[PlatonicProstitution his methods of contacting her]] are entirely legitimate, he continues to romantically pursue her even after she vehemently denies wanting anything to do with him. In-story this is {{Justified}} by the fact that he’s trying to rescue her from life as a StepfordSmiler SexSlave.
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* In Vikram Seth's novel ''Literature/AnEqualMusic'', the narrating AntiHero Michael gradually becomes this to Julia.
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* In the sixth book, HarryPotter got a stalker in Romilda Vane, also a LoonyFan. Romilda additionally showed some signs of being an AlphaBitch.
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* Eragon from ''TheInheritanceCycle'' towards Arya.
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* Eponine's stalking after Marius in ''LesMiserables'', making this OlderThanRadio. She finally confessed her feelings while dying after her HeroicSacrifice.
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** Merope Gaunt has been stalking the handsome Muggle Tom Riddle for days before her family found out. They didn't take it well. [[spoiler: Later, she bewitched and married Tom and the two of them become Voldemort's parents]]
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* Mr. Darcy spends a few early chapters of ''PrideAndPrejudice'' following Elizabeth around, staring at her, and eavesdropping on her to the point where Elizabeth is slightly creeped out. When they're both staying in Kent, he stalks her favorite place to walk in the park and spends entire evenings at Rosings staring at her but never speaking to her. This doesn't stem from any malicious intent, however; it's just that Darcy is so [[LonersAreFreaks socially inept]], he has no idea how to act when falling in love.
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* ''AdrianMole'': Adrian is almost this to Pandora in the early books, after they break up as teenagers (and Pandora eventually marries another man.) In ''The Cappuccino Years'' he acquires his own StalkerWithACrush, Eleanor Flood.
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** Also Raoul de Chagny, to a lesser extent; he fixates on Christine Daae after having being apart from her for years, constantly tries to gain her attention, and even goes so far as to listen at her door and hide in her dressing room.
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* In ''ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', [[spoiler: After William Hamleigh seizes the Shiring Earldom, he is aware that Ailena, Richard and their servant Matthew are still living in the castle. He stalks and watches over Ailena with freakish fascination, still obsessed with her even after she disgustedly rejected him twice. As soon as he gets the chance, [[MoralEventHorizon he rapes her.]]]]
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* In ''ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', [[spoiler: After William Hamleigh seizes the Shiring Earldom, he is aware that Ailena , Richard and their servant Matthew are still living in the castle. He stalks and watches over Ailena with freakish fascination, still obsessed with her even after she disgustedly rejected him twice. As soon as he gets the chance, [[MoralEventHorizon he rapes her.]]]]
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* [[IHaveManyNames Frederic/Ferdinand/Caliban]] from ''Literature/TheCollector'' by John Fowls starts as one, but unlike many, goes past this phase, actually abducts his flame, and proceeds to...well, not exactly torture or rape, but rather "keep" her.
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* ''AdrianMole'': Adrian is almost this to Pandora in the early books, after they break up as teenagers (and Pandora eventually marries another man.) In ''The Cappuccino Years'' he acquires his own StalkerWithACrush, Eleanor Flood.
* Eponine's stalking after Marius in ''LesMiserables'', making this OlderThanRadio. She finally confessed her feelings while dying after her HeroicSacrifice.
** Marius also displays stalker-ish tendencies towards Cosette. He slept with what he thought was her hankerchief over his face (to make things more creepy, it turned out to be Jean Valjean's).
* Speaking of Hugo, [[LoveMakesYouEvil Frollo's behavior]] toward La Esmeralda in ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' certainly qualifies.
* Grima Wormtongue from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' definitely qualifies as this in regards to Eowyn, albeit combined with LoveMakesYouEvil.
** Eomer says that he noticed and was tempted to [[KnightTemplarBigBrother kill him for it]].
* The eponymous antagonist of Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'', who falls in love with young witch Tiffany Aching. In an attempt to win her heart, he makes snowflakes and icebergs [[spoiler: that look like her]] and ice roses... and oh yeah, he refuses to go away when it's time for spring, creating the threat of perpetual winter.
* Robert B. Parker's private detective Spenser picks one up in ''Hush Money''. After dealing with a stalking case for Susan's friend K.C. Roth, Spenser finds that KC has started stalking him.
* In the sixth book, HarryPotter got a stalker in Romilda Vane, also a LoonyFan. Romilda additionally showed some signs of being an AlphaBitch.
** Severus Snape was a StalkerWithACrush for Lily Potter (nee Evans) even when they were children, although she liked him once she noticed him. They remained friends until he started hanging out with Voldemort sympathisers, she tried to warn him against them to no avail, and he called her a FantasticSlur. Add to that her choosing to marry Snape's school rival James and [[spoiler: Snape uninentionally setting Voldemort on her tail, which got her killed]]...
* Lanfear in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' acts this way towards Rand, the [[spoiler: reincarnation of her old lover.]] Upon first meeting him (in disguise) she flirts heavily, then a few books later she pursues him, aiding him in learning The Power, but then [[spoiler: tries to kill him after she hears a rumor that he slept with someone else.]]
* Erik, the titular phantom of ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
* Mr. Darcy spends a few early chapters of ''PrideAndPrejudice'' following Elizabeth around, staring at her, and eavesdropping on her to the point where Elizabeth is slightly creeped out. When they're both staying in Kent, he stalks her favorite place to walk in the park and spends entire evenings at Rosings staring at her but never speaking to her. This doesn't stem from any malicious intent, however; it's just that Darcy is so [[LonersAreFreaks socially inept]], he has no idea how to act when falling in love.
* A more malicious JaneAusten example is Henry Crawford of ''MansfieldPark'', who persists in tormenting the object of his desire (Fanny) no matter how much it distresses her.
* Ricky Lozada from Sandra Brown's ''TheCrush''. In fact, the book's title is referring to Lozada's stalker crush on Rennie Newton. He constantly watches her, breaks into her house multiple times (leaving roses and later trying to "seduce" her), and has his geeky subordinate check up all the information he can on her.
* Edward Cullen from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' falls under this trope quite well, except that Bella returns his affection. Some examples of Edward's stalker behavior are sneaking into Bella's house at night to watch her sleep without her permission, taking the battery out of her car so it can't run, and stalking (and then saving, [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop so it's okay for him to stalk]]) Bella. No matter how much StephenieMeyer [[WordOfGod denies it]], he's most definitely a stalker.
** This is taken to even more ridiculous extremes in the parts of ''Midnight Sun'' that were leaked - it seems that for nearly every chapter of ''Twilight'' when Edward wasn't around, he was actually hiding in the bushes, spying on Bella. It also lets the readers see his thought process, so everyone is privy to him thinking to bring oil the next time he climbs into her room so the window won't squeak and reassuring himself that what he is doing is all right because it's for her own protection.
* Fenwick from ''VillainsByNecessity'' is a womanizer to begin with, but when he spies Kaylana among the villain protagonists, he immediately decides that he must save her (and give her a personal tour of his quarters) because she's [[BeautyEqualsGoodness attractive]]. Doesn't sound creepy? While his constant spying is explainable as keeping tabs on the villains' progress, he obsesses over her presence in specific far more than professionally required. And then resorts to kidnapping her. ''By dragon''.
* [[AxCrazy Zane]] from ''{{Mistborn}}'' has an unhealthy fixation on the heroine, Vin, [[spoiler: because she's the only person the voices in his head never told him to kill]]. Vin, for her part, treats Zane more as a NotSoDifferent WorthyOpponent, but isn't romantically interested in him at all, preferring his less {{Badass}} but far more stable half-brother Elend. [[spoiler:When she finally says "no" to him, Zane tries to kill her, being a psychopath and all. It doesn't work out so well for him...]]
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Spottedleaf spends the first series stalking Firestar, and still watches over him afterwards. Additionally, she also stalks each successive generation of his family. Although, Firestar ''does'' love her back, and it is a somewhat popular shipping; in spite of him also truly loving Sandstorm, who he fathered kits with (Leafpool and Squirrelflight).
** If you consider every single thing the author has said as WordOfGod, then Spottedleaf is ''officially'' a stalker.
* In ''The Hellfire Club'' by Peter Straub, the villain SerialKiller Dick Dart acts like one towards Nora. He latches on to her due to a misunderstanding that she had kidnapped and tortured a woman, which caused him to believe that he [[BirdsOfAFeather finally found his worthy match and someone who was just like him]]. As a result, he kidnaps her and repeatedly rapes her, taking her along as he commits crimes all the while thinking of her as his accomplice. When she escapes from him, he stalks her and kidnaps her again, actually ''admiring her even more'' for managing to trick him.
* The Sheik of ''TheSheik'', who doesn't even bother to stalk his intended very long before outright kidnapping her. 'Crush' might be a bit of a misnomer, though; he just wants to rape her. Which he does.
* Poor [[BrokenBird Sansa Stark]] from ASongOfIceAndFire seems to attract these types of men, ranging from an emotionally fragile BloodKnight, who seems quite confounded by his attraction to her, to a MagnificentBastard {{Yandere}} using her as a ReplacementGoldfish for her mother, the woman he'd obsessively loved since childhood.
* [[SwordOfTruth Richard Rahl]] has a stalker, and she's a gorgeous [[DarkMagicalGirl sorceress]] with [[BlackMagic Subtractive Magic]] dedicated to [[DarkActionGirl serving the Imperial Order]] and [[CombatSadomasochist punishing herself]], who blasts mellon-sized holes through the chests of people who get on her bad side, and is completely and hopelessly in love with him. [[spoiler: Luckily for him, he manages to sway her to pull a HighHeelFaceTurn and change sides through the power of carving a statue of "Life" and treating her to more than one CharacterFilibuster, and afterwards she becomes his BlackMagicianGirl lieutenant.]] Just another day in the story of the SwordOfTruth.
* ''ZForZachariah'' has a stalker with a ''something''; Loomis is a little too intent on hunting down Ann, for multiple reasons, only one of which is the fact that he wants to rape her. His {{sanity|Slippage}} is a little questionable as well.
* In the NeroWolfe story "Murder is Corny", model Susan [=MacLeod=] asks her farmer father to hire a man she's casually dating. After she dumps him she finds out that he'd lied about needing a second job - he only wanted to force her to spend time with him. He eventually tells the other men she's dating that he's made her pregnant in an attempt to force her into marrying him to [[TheFifties save her reputation]]. [[spoiler:The story, which is false, seals his doom.]]
* Eragon from ''TheInheritanceCycle'' towards Arya.
* ''TheHouseOfNight'': Heath. Also Kalona in regards to Zoey.
** Rephaim to Stevie Rae, though it's only a mild case and with a father like his, it would be easy to come to the conclusion of StalkingIsLove. Especially with High Priestesses of Nyx.
* Norman who watches Lily's public-access show and persistently begs her to [[FootFocus show her feet on-camera]], in ''ThePrincessDiaries''.
* In ''ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', [[spoiler: After William Hamleigh seizes the Shiring Earldom, he is aware that Ailena , Richard and their servant Matthew are still living in the castle. He stalks and watches over Ailena with freakish fascination, still obsessed with her even after she disgustedly rejected him twice. As soon as he gets the chance, [[MoralEventHorizon he rapes her.]]]]
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/BlackColossus", an EldritchAbomination that WasOnceAMan toward Princess Yasmela. Visits her in the night with promises to make her his queen.
-->''"But thou shalt be my queen, oh princess! I will teach thee the ancient forgotten ways of pleasure. We—" Before the stream of cosmic obscenity which poured from the shadowy colossus, Yasmela cringed and writhed as if from a whip that flayed her dainty bare flesh.''
* [[IHaveManyNames Frederic/Ferdinand/Caliban]] from ''Literature/TheCollector'' by John Fowls starts as one, but unlike many, goes past this phase, actually abducts his flame, and proceeds to...well, not exactly torture or rape, but rather "keep" her.
* The protagonist of the short story [[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20080211/deena-f.shtml "We Love Deena"]] by Alice Sola Kim is this trope incarnate.
* Caelan from the ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' novels. He spends his days spying on Valkyrie through her kitchen window.
* [[BigBad Dr. Ahriman]] of DeanKoontz's ''FalseMemory'' has a brief bit of this. He [[MindRape mind rapes]] most of his patients and uses them for all kinds of things, be it murder, revenge, or just... entertainment. He winds up (kind of) legitimately smitten with one, fortunately not realizing this until she and her husband have skipped town. By the time they get back, they've broken his mental hold and he winds up [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard murdered by another patient]]]].
* The UrExample is Prince Shechem in [[Literature/TheBible The Book of Genesis.]] He was crushing on Jacob's only daughter, Dinah, and got this crazy idea that raping her would be a good idea. He does wind up marrying her, but the marriage lasts all of three days before her brothers kill him, [[DisproportionateRetribution along with all the men in the town.]]
* Van Ruijven to Griet in ''GirlWithAPearlEarring''. This includes the movie adaption as well. In both works he [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape her]], develops an obsession with her and follows her around.
* Arguably, Goethe's poem "Der Erlkönig" (The Erlking/"elf-king"). The Erlking follows a father and young son traveling through the forest. Apparently invisible and inaudible to the father, he tempts the increasingly terrified child to come with him, offering him games and pretty clothes. When pretending to be nice doesn't work, the Erlking just uses force instead: "Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt/Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt" ("I love you, my youngling; your form is so fine/And will you or no, I'll still take what is mine"). Right after this, the child screams that the Erlking has "hurt him," and he ''dies'' in the next stanza. It may not have been intentional, but to the modern reader the poem radiates this trope.
* Literature/TheForbiddenGame: Julian acts this way towards Jenny.
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* Eponine's stalking after Marius in ''LesMiserables'', making this OlderThanRadio. She finally confessed her feelings while dying after her HeroicSacrifice.
** Marius also displays stalker-ish tendencies towards Cosette. He slept with what he thought was her hankerchief over his face (to make things more creepy, it turned out to be Jean Valjean's).
* Speaking of Hugo, [[LoveMakesYouEvil Frollo's behavior]] toward La Esmeralda in ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' certainly qualifies.
* Grima Wormtongue from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' definitely qualifies as this in regards to Eowyn, albeit combined with LoveMakesYouEvil.
** Eomer says that he noticed and was tempted to [[KnightTemplarBigBrother kill him for it]].
* The eponymous antagonist of Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'', who falls in love with young witch Tiffany Aching. In an attempt to win her heart, he makes snowflakes and icebergs [[spoiler: that look like her]] and ice roses... and oh yeah, he refuses to go away when it's time for spring, creating the threat of perpetual winter.
* Robert B. Parker's private detective Spenser picks one up in ''Hush Money''. After dealing with a stalking case for Susan's friend K.C. Roth, Spenser finds that KC has started stalking him.
* In the sixth book, HarryPotter got a stalker in Romilda Vane, also a LoonyFan. Romilda additionally showed some signs of being an AlphaBitch.
** Severus Snape was a StalkerWithACrush for Lily Potter (nee Evans) even when they were children, although she liked him once she noticed him. They remained friends until he started hanging out with Voldemort sympathisers, she tried to warn him against them to no avail, and he called her a FantasticSlur. Add to that her choosing to marry Snape's school rival James and [[spoiler: Snape uninentionally setting Voldemort on her tail, which got her killed]]...
* Lanfear in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' acts this way towards Rand, the [[spoiler: reincarnation of her old lover.]] Upon first meeting him (in disguise) she flirts heavily, then a few books later she pursues him, aiding him in learning The Power, but then [[spoiler: tries to kill him after she hears a rumor that he slept with someone else.]]
* Erik, the titular phantom of ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
* Mr. Darcy spends a few early chapters of ''PrideAndPrejudice'' following Elizabeth around, staring at her, and eavesdropping on her to the point where Elizabeth is slightly creeped out. When they're both staying in Kent, he stalks her favorite place to walk in the park and spends entire evenings at Rosings staring at her but never speaking to her. This doesn't stem from any malicious intent, however; it's just that Darcy is so [[LonersAreFreaks socially inept]], he has no idea how to act when falling in love.
* A more malicious JaneAusten example is Henry Crawford of ''MansfieldPark'', who persists in tormenting the object of his desire (Fanny) no matter how much it distresses her.
* Ricky Lozada from Sandra Brown's ''TheCrush''. In fact, the book's title is referring to Lozada's stalker crush on Rennie Newton. He constantly watches her, breaks into her house multiple times (leaving roses and later trying to "seduce" her), and has his geeky subordinate check up all the information he can on her.
* Edward Cullen from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' falls under this trope quite well, except that Bella returns his affection. Some examples of Edward's stalker behavior are sneaking into Bella's house at night to watch her sleep without her permission, taking the battery out of her car so it can't run, and stalking (and then saving, [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop so it's okay for him to stalk]]) Bella. No matter how much StephenieMeyer [[WordOfGod denies it]], he's most definitely a stalker.
** This is taken to even more ridiculous extremes in the parts of ''Midnight Sun'' that were leaked - it seems that for nearly every chapter of ''Twilight'' when Edward wasn't around, he was actually hiding in the bushes, spying on Bella. It also lets the readers see his thought process, so everyone is privy to him thinking to bring oil the next time he climbs into her room so the window won't squeak and reassuring himself that what he is doing is all right because it's for her own protection.
* Fenwick from ''VillainsByNecessity'' is a womanizer to begin with, but when he spies Kaylana among the villain protagonists, he immediately decides that he must save her (and give her a personal tour of his quarters) because she's [[BeautyEqualsGoodness attractive]]. Doesn't sound creepy? While his constant spying is explainable as keeping tabs on the villains' progress, he obsesses over her presence in specific far more than professionally required. And then resorts to kidnapping her. ''By dragon''.
* [[AxCrazy Zane]] from ''{{Mistborn}}'' has an unhealthy fixation on the heroine, Vin, [[spoiler: because she's the only person the voices in his head never told him to kill]]. Vin, for her part, treats Zane more as a NotSoDifferent WorthyOpponent, but isn't romantically interested in him at all, preferring his less {{Badass}} but far more stable half-brother Elend. [[spoiler:When she finally says "no" to him, Zane tries to kill her, being a psychopath and all. It doesn't work out so well for him...]]
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Spottedleaf spends the first series stalking Firestar, and still watches over him afterwards. Additionally, she also stalks each successive generation of his family. Although, Firestar ''does'' love her back, and it is a somewhat popular shipping; in spite of him also truly loving Sandstorm, who he fathered kits with (Leafpool and Squirrelflight).
** If you consider every single thing the author has said as WordOfGod, then Spottedleaf is ''officially'' a stalker.
* In ''The Hellfire Club'' by Peter Straub, the villain SerialKiller Dick Dart acts like one towards Nora. He latches on to her due to a misunderstanding that she had kidnapped and tortured a woman, which caused him to believe that he [[BirdsOfAFeather finally found his worthy match and someone who was just like him]]. As a result, he kidnaps her and repeatedly rapes her, taking her along as he commits crimes all the while thinking of her as his accomplice. When she escapes from him, he stalks her and kidnaps her again, actually ''admiring her even more'' for managing to trick him.
* The Sheik of ''TheSheik'', who doesn't even bother to stalk his intended very long before outright kidnapping her. 'Crush' might be a bit of a misnomer, though; he just wants to rape her. Which he does.
* Poor [[BrokenBird Sansa Stark]] from ASongOfIceAndFire seems to attract these types of men, ranging from an emotionally fragile BloodKnight, who seems quite confounded by his attraction to her, to a MagnificentBastard {{Yandere}} using her as a ReplacementGoldfish for her mother, the woman he'd obsessively loved since childhood.
* [[SwordOfTruth Richard Rahl]] has a stalker, and she's a gorgeous [[DarkMagicalGirl sorceress]] with [[BlackMagic Subtractive Magic]] dedicated to [[DarkActionGirl serving the Imperial Order]] and [[CombatSadomasochist punishing herself]], who blasts mellon-sized holes through the chests of people who get on her bad side, and is completely and hopelessly in love with him. [[spoiler: Luckily for him, he manages to sway her to pull a HighHeelFaceTurn and change sides through the power of carving a statue of "Life" and treating her to more than one CharacterFilibuster, and afterwards she becomes his BlackMagicianGirl lieutenant.]] Just another day in the story of the SwordOfTruth.
* ''ZForZachariah'' has a stalker with a ''something''; Loomis is a little too intent on hunting down Ann, for multiple reasons, only one of which is the fact that he wants to rape her. His {{sanity|Slippage}} is a little questionable as well.
* In the NeroWolfe story "Murder is Corny", model Susan [=MacLeod=] asks her farmer father to hire a man she's casually dating. After she dumps him she finds out that he'd lied about needing a second job - he only wanted to force her to spend time with him. He eventually tells the other men she's dating that he's made her pregnant in an attempt to force her into marrying him to [[TheFifties save her reputation]]. [[spoiler:The story, which is false, seals his doom.]]
* Eragon from ''TheInheritanceCycle'' towards Arya.
* ''TheHouseOfNight'': Heath. Also Kalona in regards to Zoey.
** Rephaim to Stevie Rae, though it's only a mild case and with a father like his, it would be easy to come to the conclusion of StalkingIsLove. Especially with High Priestesses of Nyx.
* Norman who watches Lily's public-access show and persistently begs her to [[FootFocus show her feet on-camera]], in ''ThePrincessDiaries''.
* In ''ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', [[spoiler: After William Hamleigh seizes the Shiring Earldom, he is aware that Ailena , Richard and their servant Matthew are still living in the castle. He stalks and watches over Ailena with freakish fascination, still obsessed with her even after she disgustedly rejected him twice. As soon as he gets the chance, [[MoralEventHorizon he rapes her.]]]]
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/BlackColossus", an EldritchAbomination that WasOnceAMan toward Princess Yasmela. Visits her in the night with promises to make her his queen.
-->''"But thou shalt be my queen, oh princess! I will teach thee the ancient forgotten ways of pleasure. We—" Before the stream of cosmic obscenity which poured from the shadowy colossus, Yasmela cringed and writhed as if from a whip that flayed her dainty bare flesh.''
* [[IHaveManyNames Frederic/Ferdinand/Caliban]] from ''Literature/TheCollector'' by John Fowls starts as one, but unlike many, goes past this phase, actually abducts his flame, and proceeds to...well, not exactly torture or rape, but rather "keep" her.
* The protagonist of the short story [[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20080211/deena-f.shtml "We Love Deena"]] by Alice Sola Kim is this trope incarnate.
* Caelan from the ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' novels. He spends his days spying on Valkyrie through her kitchen window.
* [[BigBad Dr. Ahriman]] of DeanKoontz's ''FalseMemory'' has a brief bit of this. He [[MindRape mind rapes]] most of his patients and uses them for all kinds of things, be it murder, revenge, or just... entertainment. He winds up (kind of) legitimately smitten with one, fortunately not realizing this until she and her husband have skipped town. By the time they get back, they've broken his mental hold and he winds up [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard murdered by another patient]]]].
* The UrExample is Prince Shechem in [[Literature/TheBible The Book of Genesis.]] He was crushing on Jacob's only daughter, Dinah, and got this crazy idea that raping her would be a good idea. He does wind up marrying her, but the marriage lasts all of three days before her brothers kill him, [[DisproportionateRetribution along with all the men in the town.]]
* Van Ruijven to Griet in ''GirlWithAPearlEarring''. This includes the movie adaption as well. In both works he [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape her]], develops an obsession with her and follows her around.
* Arguably, Goethe's poem "Der Erlkönig" (The Erlking/"elf-king"). The Erlking follows a father and young son traveling through the forest. Apparently invisible and inaudible to the father, he tempts the increasingly terrified child to come with him, offering him games and pretty clothes. When pretending to be nice doesn't work, the Erlking just uses force instead: "Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt/Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt" ("I love you, my youngling; your form is so fine/And will you or no, I'll still take what is mine"). Right after this, the child screams that the Erlking has "hurt him," and he ''dies'' in the next stanza. It may not have been intentional, but to the modern reader the poem radiates this trope.
* Literature/TheForbiddenGame: Julian acts this way towards Jenny.
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