History Main / ILoveTheDead

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Dr. Destiny forces a woman to admit that she once, drunkenly, had sex with a corpse at a mortuary... and that nothing since then's measured up.

* Considering that the central plot of the movie ''Film/DropDeadSexy'' concerns two small-time crooks stealing the body of a beautiful blonde and holding it for ransom, necrophilia is a major subtext in the film. In one scene, one of the protagonists catches the other in what he thinks (mistakenly) is the act of sex with the blonde's lingerie-clad corpse and has all sorts of sarcastic remarks to make; in another scene, the protagonists visit a coroner (Creator/BradDourif in a cameo) who is preparing for a romantic evening with the dead body of an attractive woman who has been shot by her husband: [[{{Squick}} the coroner invites one of the protagonists to probe the fatal bullet wound with his finger.]]

* The 1990 sub-BMovie horror film ''Film/{{Deadmate}}'' had necrophilia as its main theme, having as its plot the travails of a beautiful small-town waitress who gets involved with a mortician who turns out to be the leader of a ring that kills women and uses their bodies for sexual pleasures. It was so cheaply produced that only one actual sequence depicting necrophilia was shown, in which a pretty cheerleader is forced off the road while driving, drowned in a pond, and has her dead body sexually used by the ambulance attendants taking it to the mortuary. However, as the heroine observes while spying on the bad guys, their activities seem to have as much or more to do with Frankenstein-style experiments in reanimating dead bodies than with sex.

* In Richard Burton's legendarily bad 1972 version of ''Film/{{Bluebeard|1972}}'', the body of Baron Von Sepper's (Burton) first wife, Greta (Karin Schubert), who had been shot dead in a hunting accident ([[spoiler:she was shot in the back by the Baron]]) is seen laid out in her open coffin, perfectly coiffed and made up and dressed in a slinky, low-cut white satin evening gown, for her funeral. The Baron takes photographs of Greta's body, then kisses the corpse; a SexyDiscretionShot fading to a scene of the Baron making an abstract version of the photographs for display implies that he had sex with the dead body. At the climax of the movie, Anne (Joey Heatherton) discovers [[BodyInABreadbox the bodies of all of Bluebeard's murdered wives preserved in a walk-in freezer]]. The Baron reveals to Anne that he, being impotent, was unable to be aroused by any of his wives and describes this as the motive for his string of murders; left unanswered is the question as to whether his impotence only applied to his wives as living people. By its very nature, in fact (nobleman or high-society gentleman marries a string of beautiful women, murders them, and keeps their bodies around frozen or otherwise preserved), necrophilia is a frequent subtext in the various versions of the Bluebeard legend.

* In the 1944 Creator/BorisKarloff movie ''Film/TheClimax'', Karloff's character, Dr. Friedrich Hohner, is obsessed with a beautiful opera singer, Marcellina (June Vincent), with whom he's been having an affair but who wants to break up with him, strangles her to death. Ten years later, ''another'' gorgeous singer (Susanna Foster) whom Hohner has developed an identical obsession with, discovers Marcellina's perfectly-preserved body, which Hohner has kept in a Snow White-like glass-lidded coffin for the past decade. Bonus points for, however delicately, implying even the possibility of necrophilia in a movie - stipulating that it was a BMovie, which tended to not get quite as much attention from the censors - shot during the heyday of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode!

* Another 1940s B-movie (this time starring Bela Lugosi), ''The Corpse Vanishes'', has Lugosi's character drugging and kidnapping high-society brides to whisk off to his mortuary, where he drains their blood for an elixir designed to keep his wife young and beautiful. The process kills the unfortunate brides, whose bodies are discovered stored in morgue drawers by the female protagonist. Lugosi's hunchbacked assistant shows up, forcing the heroine to hide; she watches him (he has previously been seen watching, with obvious excitement, Lugosi drain a bride's blood) sensually caress the dead women's faces until he himself is discovered by Lugosi, who sends him off with a flea in his ear and several stripes from a cat-o'-nine-tails.

* In ''Film/FleshForFrankenstein'' (also known as ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'') the Baron (Udo Kier) has exceptionally [[Squick squicky]] sex with his beautiful creation (played by Italian actress Dalila di Lazzaro) before animating it, using the exposed intestines for his pleasure.

* The novel ''Bloodless Affairs'' by Pia Townes, a psychological thriller/whodunit, is about an undertaker in a wealthy suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, who has a...thing...for the more attractive female corpses he takes care of. The book starts with a lengthy sequence showing the mortician embalming the body of a good-looking woman who used to work in his office (and whom he apparently disliked in life), then giving in to his urges and mounting the body. Several times. There are apparently rumors going around the mortuary about this fellow's proclivities, but as the book begins, he's been able to deflect or downplay them.

* French author Gabrielle Wittkopp's short novel ''The Necrophile'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; the titular character digs up from graves, or otherwise steals, the bodies of recently deceased people, takes them home, and uses them (often repeatedly) for his sexual pleasure until they become too far gone in decomposition and he has to dispose of them.

* In ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'', if Fiona dies at the hands of Riccardo, [[HellIsThatNoise the sounds]] with the game over screen implies that Riccardo ''has sex with her lifeless body''. Additionally, Daniella sounds as though she's having a little ''too'' much fun mutilating her corpse if Fiona dies to her instead.

* The maniac Jessie Burlingame encounters in ''Literature/GeraldsGame'' is actually [[spoiler: NOT a figure of her imagination, but a crazy necrophiliac, Raymond Andrew Joubert, who has been digging up body parts and using them for pleasure. Jessie is especially horrified because she offered to have sex with the ghostly intruder: "I would have let him put his cock -- the cock he stuck down the rotting throats of dead men -- into me if only he would have promised [...] to set me free."]]

* Every {{Necromancer}} in Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith's works seems to be into this, even if the author never gets graphic with it.

** The necromancer and his apprentice in ''The Charnel God'' raise the dead temporarily for "entertainment".

* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': Seiji fell in love with Celty's [[ALoveToDismember dismembered head]] at first sight when he saw it in his sister's lab at a young age.

->''I love the dead before they rise\\

I have other uses for you, darling''

** In ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E11OnAClearDayICantSeeMySister On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister]]'', Principal Skinner attempts to rekindle his relationship with Mrs. Krabappel during a field trip to a glacier. When she rebuffs him and makes out with a park ranger, Skinner tries to show her up by grabbing an Ice Age mummy on display and making out with it.

** Another episode from the first season, "Sophomore Jinx", has this as TheReveal. The detectives think that the victim, a university student, was raped and then murdered. [[spoiler:The victim ''had'' previously been raped when she was alive, but after she dies accidently from falling down the stairs while intoxicated (as she used alcohol to cope with the sexual assault), her professor that had been obsessed with her then [[FromBadToWorse rapes her body]].]]