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== [[Literature]] ==
* A [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] shows up in ''[[Something Wicked This Way Comes]]'' by Ray Bradbury as well. There's an electro-mechanical chair in the story that can bring a dead body back to a horrify mockery of life just long enough for magic to be used to heal the person.
* In the third book of ''[[The Death Gate Cycle]]'', [[Witch Species|Sartan]] necromancer Jonathon attempts to resurrect his wife, who was just murdered in front of his eyes. Because he does not wait the requisite three days for her soul to depart, however (which would have resulted in a [[Soulless Shell]]), she comes back as a ''lazar'', an undead entity whose soul has only partially separated from its body, leaving it in total spiritual agony and quite, ''quite'' [[Ax Crazy|insane]]. The ''lazar's'' first act is to immediately begin creating an army of its kind to overwhelm the living and force them to share in its torment. Jonathon, previously a rather lighthearted [[Genius Ditz]], is horrified by what he's unleashed and becomes [[The Atoner]] for the remainder of the series.
* The [[Big Bad]] of James Byron Huggins' ''Cain'' is a [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]]. [[Government Conspiracy|The military]] took it into their heads to take the dead body of one of their finest killers, named [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Cain]], and [[Super Soldier|rebuild him into a nigh-unkillable vampire assassin]]. The problem? Cain woke up on the slab, possessed by ''[[The Devil]].''
* Possibly used in ''[[Gone (novel)]]'', where the Gaiaphage uses Lana's powers to bring Drake and Brittney back from the dead ... together in the same body, and Drake is in control. When Brittney briefly gains control, she begs the heroes to kill her. Another interpretation is that being unable to die in a zombie state was Brittney's power, and the Gaiaphage fused her and Drake together when he died.
* ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'' has a variant in that King Elias, in the hopes of resurrecting or at least speaking to [[Necromantic|his dead wife]], instead comes to the attention of the [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Big Bad|Storm King]]. In the end, this chain of events results in the Storm King possessing ''him''.
* In ''[[Pet Sematary]]'', humans who are buried in the Micmac Indian burial ground annex to the pet sematary are implied to become this. It's unclear whether animals resurrected are this, too stupid to do much other than become slightly more aggressive than they were in life, or [[Damaged Soul|Damaged Souls]].
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* Another [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] is in ''[[Koudelka]]'', predecessor to ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' with the use of the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Emigre Manuscript]].
** The Type-3 that ''Koudelka'' is based around was created using the very-same artifact that generated the Type-3 'mother' in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]''.
** Although neither case is brought back by the hero.
* In the 2nd [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] game, Curse of the Crimson Elixir, you find out that the [[Big Bad]] raised {{spoiler|his lover, Elma}} as a golem & that's the blue-skinned monster woman that keeps attacking the brothers due to {{spoiler|occasionally losing her sanity to blood lust}}. {{spoiler|Crowley himself}} is eventually revealed to be a monstrous golem as well, although he never loses control, although one could argue that this is because he was pretty insanely obsessed to begin with.
* [[The Undead]] in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' are all literally Monsters From Beyond The Veil. [[The Undead]] are what happens when Demons from beyond the Veil, seeking mortal hosts, find themselves trapped in corpses instead. Demons don't take to being stuck in rotting corpses and skeletons very well, and more often than not turn [[Ax Crazy]]. The worst ones, Arcane Horrors and Revenants, can still make use of the power their hosts had in life but are no less [[Ax Crazy]]. The ''player'' can create one with the [[Animate Dead]] spell which works by taking a humanoid corpse, ripping out its skeleton, and binding a very minor spirit to it- essentially a far more benign version of the above; the result is a "pet" with the basic class of the original person. In ''Awakening'' one of your ''allies'' is technically a [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]]: Justice is a Fade Spirit of Justice who was accidentally brought into the physical world and forced into the corpse of a Grey Warden. Initially he's not exactly thrilled about the situation, but earning approval with him will help him see the perks of the physical world. A true resurrection outside of immediate combat is apparently impossible in the ''[[Dragon Age]]'' setting since even the spirits of the Fade have no idea where souls go after death.
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