The living shadows that come for Edwin in Seven Stars advance towards the house whenever Catriona looks away from them.Also they are spread out in such a way that you cannot watch all of them at once, meaning at least one can always advance on you. When Jack notices how they are stalking him when his back is turned, he even compares their behavior to "red light", a game he played in his youth. The Shining: The topiary animals outside the hotel, which are brought to life by the hotels' power, act like this.The RAF has a special Concorde that flies through a wormhole to do a flyby over the Plateau every once in a while, just in case. The structure is surrounded by a Wall Of Pain of impaled victims that are just barely alive enough to constantly observe it and collapse its wave function into a "captive in the pyramid and dormant" state. The Sleeper in the Pyramid on the Dead Plateau is an unspecified Eldritch Abomination that's being held inside a pyramid on a distant planet by observer effect magic. Inverted with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the creature is so mind-bogglingly stupid that if you block your line of sight by wrapping a towel around your head, you are safe because the beast thinks that since you can't see it, it can't see you either.In the Chronicles of the Kencyrath series, the short story "Bones" features attacking skeletons that only move when they're not being looked at.
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