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* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s chapter books ''Chair Person'', ''The Four Grannies'' and ''Who Got Rid Of Angus Flint?'' has been collected as a volume called ''Stopping For A Spell'' whose back cover describes all three stories in terms of this trope.
* As in the page quote - E. Gorey's short story ''The Doubtful Guest'' involves a ''highly'' annoying [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Penguin-like creature]] constantly angering a family.
* [[Ogden Nash]] wrote a poem about The Thing That Would Not Leave called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180127035958/http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/polterguest.html Polterguest, My Polterguest]''.
* A children's book called ''[[The Trolls]]'' has a woman tell her nieces and nephews about growing up in Vancouver with her eccentric family. One of these family members was their great-uncle Louis, who came for two weeks and stayed for six years. {{spoiler|He only left after he insisted he saved the narrator's younger brother from a pack of trolls and the narrator's mother ordered him out in disgust.}}
* In the story ''[[Fudge|Superfudge]]'', the Hatcher family is constantly annoyed by Fudge's friend Daniel. At one point, Daniel looks ready to invite himself to stay for dinner with them, but Mrs. Hatcher tricks him into leaving by pretending that they're having peas and onions with their dinner (two foods that he hates).
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