Boy Meets Ghoul/Sandbox

"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?"

- Episode 7, Ask That Guy

The Undead are usually scary, but sometimes they're sexy as well, and sometimes, a guy or a gal falls in love with one. A little bit of stalking-the-night and feasting-off-the-bodies-of-the-living is no impediment to true romance, after all. When Boy Meets Ghoul, or 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 love conquers all. Maybe it can even conquer undeath?

This probably occurs more often with vampires or ghosts than with any other form of undead creature. Romance with actual ghouls is fairly rare, but the pun was too good for us to resist.

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

A subtrope of Interspecies Romance. May be a case of Mayfly-December Romance. See also: Kiss of the Vampire, Lesbian Vampire, Cute Ghost Girl, Woman in White. May invoke the Hemo-Erotic.

Anime and Manga

 * Rosario to Vampire: 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.
 * And of course, Boy also meets Succubus, Witch (twice!), and Snow Girl. And although Boy makes it clear that he's only interested in meeting Vampire, they make it equally clear they don't care.
 * However, Vampire's Superpowered Not-So-Nice Side occasionally makes it clear they really should care.
 * 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).
 * Wirbelwind: girl meets ordinary boy (initially), who then turns into undead, but it's all to the better because she's a Dark Elf and now they don't need to Wangst about 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.
 * Sanka Rea: Boy obsessed with the undead meets girl, girl falls off cliff and dies, girl becomes zombie, zombie-girl becomes freeloader in boy's house.
 * My Lovely Ghost Kana: Boy meets Cute Ghost Girl 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 brutally killed herself many years ago.
 * Gosunkugi from Ranma 1/2 developed a crush on Kogane while they spent time together during an episode.
 * Durarara: Boy meets Headless Horsewoman and.
 * A typical Franken Fran story usually doesn't start with this as a premise, but that may be how it ends up.
 * Tasogare Otome X Amnesia: Boy meets girl. Girl turns out to be amnesiac ghost of a 50 year old corpse in the school basement. Mysteries ensue.
 * Dance in the Vampire Bund: In the anime, boy meets vampire, eventually 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,.
 * Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?: Boy meets Necromancer, boy gets murdered by a serial killer, boy gets revived by said Necromancer, then boy meets Magical Girl and Vampire Ninjas and . And another one and a Magical Girl with multiple lives.
 * Sazan Eyes: Boy meets immortal, boy killed by immortal's pet, immortal absorbs his soul to resurrect him as a zombie Wu.
 * Hellsing: Grizzled mercenary man meets vampire girl.
 * Hellsing: Grizzled mercenary man meets vampire girl.

Comic

 * The main plot of Tokyo Pop's original English language manga "My Dead Girlfriend".
 * Mad Man 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.

Fanworks

 * Novembersmith's RPS fan-novel The Anatomy of a Fall is based on a boy meets ghost scenario.

Film

 * Original Underworld: Boy meets vampire.
 * In Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, the boy meets a dead girl, and ends up accidentally married to her.
 * Casper: has a puppy-love version of girl meets ghost.
 * Let the Right One In. Another puppy-love version, though a very dark one. Boy meets a strange young girl who turns out to be a vampire. Childhood love/violent deaths ensue.
 * Innocent Blood. Undercover detective meets... vampire (no points for guessing that). "I take lives." "Ya well, if you were perfect you wouldn't still be single."
 * Prom Night III: The Last Kiss. The fact that Mary Lou is a ghost doesn't turn Alex off, it's her... antisocial behavior.
 * The Lost Boys. Boy meets (half) vampire and the gang of gothy biker punk vampires who turned her. Hilarity--and carnage ensues.
 * Near Dark. Boy meets vampire and her family of psychotic hillbilly bloodsuckers. Carnage ensues.

Literature

 * Twilight: Girl meets vampire and werewolf and love triangle ensues.
 * Bloodsucking Fiends: Boy meets freshly turned vampire on the rebound.
 * Let the Right One In: Young boy meets apparently-young vampire, and, as with the movie version, puppy love + carnage ensues.
 * The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter: 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.
 * Demon In My View by Amelia Atwater Rhodes features girl-meets-vampire, like Twilight.
 * The Peony Lantern: Boy meets ghost. It doesn't end well.
 * The Gravesavers by Canadian author Sheree Fitch had a girl met a boy, who

Live Action TV

 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a number of these, most notably Buffy and Angel.
 * The vampire detective show Moonlight features the romance between the main character and his human love interest.
 * In Vampire Diaries, Stefan and Damon both meet Katherine. A few hundred years later, Stefan meets Elena. Then, . And then.
 * The ABC/BBC co-production Dead Gorgeous plays with this by having "Living Ghost" Rebecca fall for living boy David. However, he seems to not be particularly interested.

Music

 * "Date With A Vampire" by the Screaming Tribesmen.
 * "Little Ghost" by the White Stripes.
 * "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 Jeremy Messersmith, though the ghost in this case is male.

Video Games

 * Neverwinter Nights 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.
 * Tsukihime features boy meets vampire princess among its many flavors of Interspecies Romance.

Webcomics

 * The webcomic Ghost Friend was based on this trope.
 * Xkcd has this little comic, where the boy's love interest seems to be a bit deader than most.