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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' has Tallulah and Selwyn, a couple of married wizards living in a haunted castle with a gargoyle for pet/son.

* Creator/RayBradbury wrote several short stories about the Elliotts, a family of supernatural creatures with special abilities. One could [[SeeingThroughAnothersEyes See Through Anothers Eyes]] and another named Uncle Einar had large wings and could fly.

The two most well known examples are probably ''Series/TheMunsters'' and ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''; both sitcoms aired the same year and had the same basic premise; a family that scared people, and both were not only amazingly successful but also had a strong impact in popular culture. Other than that they had a key difference: the Munsters are monsters acting like humans, the Addamses are humans acting like monsters.

* The bosses from the light gun game ''VideoGame/GhoulPanic'' are a family composed of a vampire (the father), a witch (older daughter), a Frankenstein's monster (younger son, who turns into a huge older version of himself) and a giant dragon (mother and the final boss). Don't ask how it is even possible.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeAndSon'' has Junior befriend a kid who dresses a lot like Eddie Munster and who is ostracized by other kids (especially Bluto’s son and local bully). The kid turns out to be a werewolf and his family is made up of monsters: his dad is a Dracula-like vampire, his mom is a literal Mummy and his grandpa is the FrankensteinMonster.

* Episode "Who's Minding the Monster?" of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'' has the gang helping to babysit a werewolf baby that turns into wolf when the moon shines. His father was Dracula and his mother a Film/BrideOfFrankenstein-like monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': "Parents' Day" reveals that Enid was born a witch, her parents are a werewolf and a vampire, and her little brothers are a PumpkinPerson and a Frankenstein's monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'': Callie's family from her father's side consists of actual demons, and her father is Satan.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' has Tallulah and Selwyn, a couple of married wizards living in a hunted castle with a gargoyle for pet/son.

* A 2013 Nutrigrain bar ad depicted a family of vampires who [[DaywalkingVampire grow accustomed to going about during the daytime]] after trying the bars.

* ''The Addams Family'' had a remake in the 1990s known by the same name, ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', that was critically and financially successful, thus producing a sequel, ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''. Both centered on Uncle Fester to some degree, and the children as the secondary plot. The second one wasn't as successful commercially, so a third movie was never made. A MadeForTVMovie was made, ''The Addams Family Reunion'', but is generally considered much inferior in quality to the previous ones.

These families are not like the others: they range from [[Series/TheMunsters friendly monsters]] to [[Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre real psychopaths]], and sometimes [[Series/TheAddamsFamily friendly psychopaths]]. Well, families tend to have things in common. Members tend to look, behave and act similarly, whether because of genetics or uprising, a family normally has traditions, internal rules, shared hobbies and a whole microculture. This is what happens when the family is unusual.

* ''Literature/TheSuicideShop'' gives us the Tuvache family, the owners of the titular suicide shop (a business family selling the ways to off yourself in an awful dystopian future). All named after famous people who killed themselves, they disdain things such as joy and optimism and encourage in their house and clientele depression, self-hatred and morbidity (resulting in a strange form of abusing parenting played for dark laughs). Mishima is the shop owner who sees death as a business and has a true love for seppuku, while his wife Lucrèce cooks the poisons they sell and uses famous suicides as bedtime stories. Their son Vincent is a severely anorexic MadArtist with a head wrapped in bandages due to his violent and painful chronic headaches, while their daughter Marilyn is an overweight and depressed teenager constantly wallowing in the sorrow of being ugly, useless and alone. The Tuvaches being the Tuvaches, they see Marilyn as an average teenager and treat Vincent as a fantastic genius. But all will change when the third child, Alan, proves to be a cheerful and merry little boy that tries his hardest to bring laugh and smiles around him.

* Literature/TheSuicideShop gives us the Tuvache family, the owners of the titular suicide shop. All named after famous people who killed themselves, they disdain things such as joy and optimism and encourage in their house and in their clientele depression, self-hatred and morbidity. Mishima is the shop owner who sees death as a business and a true love for seppuku, while his wife Lucrèce cooks the poisons they sell. The daughter Marilyn is an overweight teenager without an ounce of self-love, whose only dream is to kill herself and whose only sorrow is that her parents forbid her to do so. As for the son Vincent, he is a severely anorexic MadArtist that creates AmusementParkofDoom maquettes in his free time and has his head wrapped in bandages in a feeble attempt at treating his violent and painful chronic headaches. But all changes when the third child is born: Alan, a cheerful and merry little boy that only thinks of playing, laughing and enjoying life.
** Also true in the book's [[WesternAnimation/TheSuicideShop movie adaptation]]. While Marilyn, Lucrèce and Alan are still the same, Vincent is downgraded from an extremely disturbed and self-destructive artist to a pale, lanky, hunched and apathetic teenager who makes creepy drawings in his free time. As for Mishima, his personality is changed from an every-man merchant type to an elegant and poetic Gomez Addams-expy.

* Literature/TheSuicideShop gives us the Tuvache family, the owners of the titular suicide shop. All named after famous people who killed themselves, they disdain things such as joy and optimism and encourage in their house and shop depression, self-hatred and morbid fascination. Mishima is the shop owner who sees death as a business, while his wife Lucrèce prepares the poisons they sell in their private laboratory. The daughter Marilyn is an overweight and self-hating teenager believing herself ugly and useless, whose only dream is to kill herself and whose only sorrow is that her parents forbid her to do so.The son Vincent is a severely anorexic MadArtist that creates AmusementParkofDoom maquettes in his free time and has his head wrapped in bandages in a feeble attempt at treating his violent and painful chronic headaches. But all changes when the third child is born: Alan, a cheerful and merry little boy that only thinks of playing, laughing and enjoying life.
** Also true in the book's [[ WesternAnimation/TheSuicideShop movie adaptation]]. While Marilyn, Lucrèce and Alan are still the same, Vincent is downgraded from an extremely disturbed and self-destructive artist to a pale, lanky, hunched and apathetic teenager who makes creepy drawings in his free time. As for Mishima, his personality is changed from an every-man merchant type to an elegant and poetic Gomez Addams-expy with a true passion for seppuku.

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* The ''Webcomic/{{Belzebubs}}''. The dad is the vocal and bassist for a BlackMetal band, they all wear corpse paint and worship Satan, they have easy access to TheDarkArts... but otherwise the Belzebubs just your average modern family.

* The ''Webcomic/{{Belzebubs}}'', a Satan-worshipping black-metal family.

* ''Wang Fam'', a Filipino horror-comedy about a family of aswangs.

A case of ItRunsInTheFamily and very often a behavior that identifies TheClan, most of the cases show a NuclearFamily albeit often with cases of {{Nephewism}} and, ironically, in most examples they are not [[DysfunctionalFamily Dysfunctional Families]]. Nonhuman examples often involve a MonsterMash via RandomSpeciesOffspring. Sometimes overlaps with QuirkyHousehold, when is an entire village is a case of {{Halloweentown}}. Contrast with TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether for the horror version, not to confuse with CreepyUncle.

** An Addams family expy in the Mycawbs in episode "Loathe Thy Neighbor" (although the daughter looks more like Marilyn Munster).

* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and the reboot ''Series/TheNewAddamsFamily''.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeAndSon'' has Junior befriending a kid that dress a lot like Eddie Munster and that was ostracized from other kids (especially Bluto’s son and local bully). The kid turn out to be a werewolf and his family is made of monsters: his dad is a Dracula-like vampire, his mom a literal Mummy and his grandpa the FrankensteinMonster.

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* Several of the monsters in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' have their families, most notably Dracula and the Wolf Man.
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* Music/RobZombie did a kind of remake of ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' with ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' and the Firefly family, with more comedic overtones, yet still a family of violent, murderous psychopaths.

These families are not like the others: they range from [[Series/TheMunsters friendly monsters]] to [[Franchise/TheTexasChainSawMassacre real psychopaths]], and sometimes [[Series/TheAddamsFamily friendly psychopaths]]. Well, families tend to have things in common. Members tend to look, behave and act similarly, whether because of genetics or uprising, a family normally has traditions, internal rules, shared hobbies and a whole microculture. This is what happens when the family is unusual.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily'' had two animated series, one in the 1970s and one in the 1990s. Both were produced by Creator/HannaBarbera.

* Creator/RobZombie did a kind of remake of ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' with ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' and the Firefly family, with more comedic overtones, yet still a family of violent, murderous psychopaths.

* Episode "Who's Minding the Monster?" of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'' has the gang helping to babysit a werewolf baby that turns into wolf when the moon shines. His father was Dracula and his mother a BrideOfFrankenstein-like monster.

* Costa Rican writer Daniel Gonzalez in his children's novel ''Leonor; aventuras fantasticas'' has a creepy family; the Quintrala del Osario, the family of main character Leonor (a pale, thin, scary-looking Goth girl) which includes her father, a greenish incredible tall man; her mother, an attractive, yet eccentric, Gothic-looking woman, and her grandmother, that looks like the classic hag. They also live in a haunted house and her father has a factory of knives. They are all friendly people never-the-less.