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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'', the group cleans out the Black house, finding all sorts of crazy creatures in the house, including {{spoiler|a boggart in a wardrobe that turns into the corpses of Harry and the Weasley family.}}
* Douglas Adams' novel ''[[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]]'' is a rare example where it plays into the main plot. {{spoiler|It eats [[The Man Behind the Man]]
** The entire story maintains a subplot of Gently playing a game of chicken with his maid, both trying to trick each other into opening the fridge first. Gently leaves classic "door left unopened" clues, such as a hair stuck in the door, while his maid messes with those to pretend she ''did'' open it so he would open it and check if anything was moved around.
* In somewhat of a subversion, in a later ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' sequel, Arthur Dent eats the least hairy things in his fridge after returning to Earth after a long expedition in space, thus killing a disease which would have otherwise wiped out half a hemisphere.
* As with [[Trope Overdosed|so many other tropes]], this one is represented multiple times in ''[[Discworld]]''.
** In ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', Susan Sto-Helit conducts a forensic examination of the contents of a bag left hanging outside the window in winter (
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