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* In the yaoi manga "[[Manga/Under Grand Hotel|Under Grand Hotel]]" the [[Depraved Bisexual]] Swordfish warns Sen (whom he's attracted to) that he better make sure he doesn't die while in prison because if he does he'll rape his corpse in full view of everyone.

* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] Ashley of ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]'' plays with this trope in episode 10 when she puts Shusei in a permanent sleep and whispers in his ear "I knew you'd make a beautiful corpse. You're part of my collection now. You'll never wake up again..." while caressing his face and chest.

** As of chapter 20, he admits that {{spoiler|he'd fallen for her while she was still alive, and would have been fine with her even if she wasn't a zombie}}.

* ''[[Canaan]]'': {{spoiler|Hakko}}'s sex scene with {{spoiler|Santana}}'s corpse, after she crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]] when {{spoiler|Liang Qi tricks her into killing him}}.

* ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'': When Kagero resists Tessai's attempts to rape her, he flat-out tells her he wouldn't mind raping her corpse instead.

* The Governor, the creepy-ass villain of several volumes of ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', eventually removes the teeth from his zombified daughter. ''[[Parental Incest|So he can make out with her]]''.

* Occurs in the ''Tales Of The Unrefined'' stories "No Rest" and "Evil is Nuts".

* In the origin story of Pfaultz from the Vertigo ''[[House Of Secrets]]'', he's seen shagging a young girl's corpse.

* ''[[Ramba]]'': In "Violent Death", after assassinating her target, Ramba notices his erection is still standing which pleases her and is provoked to have intercourse with the previously dead body.

== Fanfiction ==

* Several ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' fics had Cloud spending his last tearful moments with Aeris with his pants down.

* ''[[Sweet Apple Massacre]]''. There's just Squick completely, and most of it involves necrophilia, and even [[Brother-Sister Incest]]. Except the sister is dead as well. Squick much?

== Film ==

** In ''Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III'', Alfredo practically makes out with a severed head.

* Perry Farrell (frontman for Jane's Addiction) has sex with real-life wife Casey Niccoli after she OD's in the 1993 vanity project ''Gift.''

* The Troma film ''[[Cry Uncle]]'' features the "hero" having sex with a woman he think is passed out, while his interior monologue berates himself for falling so low. It turns out the woman is actually dead. The film was banned in some countries until very recently.

* Pretty much the entire plot of the obscure 1990 British film ''Living Doll''. You almost certainly haven't seen it. Be grateful for small mercies.

* In ''[[Quills]]'' {{spoiler|Joaquin Phoenix's character has a dream about sleeping with Kate Winslet's corpse.}}

* The Japanese film ''[[Visitor Q]]'' has the beleaguered protagonist engage in... relations with a pretty female corpse. Even under those conditions, [[It Got Worse|it. Gets. Worse]].

* In another Japanese movie, ''EM: Embalming'', this is implied. (Please note that until very recently, embalming the dead was an almost unknown practice in Japan, where it's customary for bodies to be cremated, so many Japanese would see something quite creepy about the practice of preserving corpses.)

* The 1980's horror movie ''Mortuary'' also had this as a subtext. {{spoiler|The villain kidnaps the heroine and attempts to kill and then embalm her so he can keep her as his necrophiliac lover.}}

* Tate in the controversial movie ''[[Ken Park]]'' is a necrophiliac who [[Erotic Asphyxiation|asphyxiates himself for sexual pleasure]] and eventually stabs his grandparents and [[Squick|gets an erection while looking at their corpses]].

* The Canadian film ''Kissed'' (based on the Barbara Gowdy story) is also about a woman who is attracted to the dead. In the climax, {{spoiler|her boyfriend hangs himself so he can "be with her" forever.}}

* Considering that the central plot of the movie ''[[Drop Dead Sexy]]'' concerns two small-time crooks stealing the body of a beautiful blonde and holding it for ransom, this is a major subtext in the film. In fact, in one scene, the protagonists visit a coroner 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.]]

* ''Starkweather'' has Charlie apparently about to perform sexual acts with the body of a female victim, when Caril Ann catches him. When he tries explaining that he was just posing the body (to make it look like the work of "some sex pervert") and voices his disgust at the thought of doing anything to the corpse, Caril Ann asks him "... then why [[Raging Stiffie|are you hard down there?]]"

* In ''[[The House of Yes]]'', two characters reenact the Kennedy Assassination. The man (as Kennedy) gets shot and "killed" while the girl (as Jackie Onasis) tends to him. This is foreplay.

* Introduced, [[Red Herring]]-style, in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' -- the police apparently believe Buffalo Bill is taking parts of his victim's bodies to pleasure himself.

* ''[[Dreamaniac]]'': "She fucks men, and then she kills them--not always in that order!"

* ''[[A Serbian Film]]'' has both {{spoiler|the protagonist being forced to decapitate the woman he's raping and not stop the assault}} and at the end {{spoiler|a film crew deciding to rape the corpses of the protagonist and his family. Starting with the son.}} It's disturbing...and apparently [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|made as a protest.]]

* The zombies in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' may ... well, we never know WHAT they are because the only explanation for events in the film is cut off mid sentence. Assuming they're true undead zombies we get one woman on a talk show admitting she's still in love with, and regularly having sex with, her zombie husband.

* One of the earliest comes in ''[[The Revengers Tragedy]]''. When Gloriana won't sleep with him, the Duke poisons her, and then rapes her corpse.

* Junior Rennie in ''[[Under the Dome]]'' succumbs to this. Whenever his migraines get too bad, he [[Squick|retreats to the McCain pantry with his "girlfriends" and is obsessed with the smell.]] But then, he does have a brain tumor driving him steadily more insane as the book goes on, and Stephen King doesn't exactly elaborate as to what happens in the pantry.

* In ''[[Firestarter]]'', a main character reads the minds of {{spoiler|one of the "Graduate Assistants" who had been experimenting on him in college, and finds that he has killed four people and raped one of the bodies.}}

* In Chuck Palahniuk's ''[[Lullaby]]'', a necrophiliac EMT gains access to a magical "culling song" that will kill anyone who it is sung to. The EMT goes in a killing spree, murdering models to have sex with them. Also, {{spoiler|the narrator unwittingly used the song to kill his wife, then had sex with her thinking she was half asleep.}}

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

* The novel ''[[Dreaming Of Babylon]]'' features a coroner who admires the bodies of beautiful dead women, though he's insulted when the main character repeatedly implies that he has sex with them.

* In some of [[Dean Koontz]]'s early works (''The Vision'' and ''The Face of Fear'' among others), the villains are serial rapists as well as murderers, and the police at the crime-scene wonder if the killer raped the victim before or after they were killed.

** Technically they're just brain-dead. The bodies themselves are actually alive.

** Martin's [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] has the character Reek, who is implied to have been a necrophile. Whether he would take his turn with the corpses before or after his [[Serial Killer]] [[Complete Monster]] master had skinned them for his own pleasure is not known.

* [[Barbara Gowdy]]'s short story "We So Seldom Look On Love".

* In Mika Waltari's ''[[Sinuhe the Egyptian]]'', the protagonist has to work with body preparers in the House of Death for some time. He makes notice that most of those permanently in the business employ the occasional female corpse in this way, because the deathstench they carry ensures no prostitute will ever touch them, for any price. He also tells that the workers once bought a slave for their needs, but that she became insane because of the place. Some of the workers actually deem necrophilia ''their duty'' because of one or two <s> miracles</s> occurrences where a young female corpse woke up during the "procedure" and returned home to live normally. Compare with the Real Life section of this article.

* In William Faulkner's short story ''[[A Rose for Emily]]'', the title character {{spoiler|murders the man she wishes to marry, then lies next to him (it is implied this was long ago, given the dust on the pillow), the corpse is also said to have been in an embracing position.}}

* The ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episodes "The Last Word" and "Cold Comfort" both feature necrophilic killers.

** They don't outright state the original killer from "The Angel Maker" was a necrophiliac, but its implied. He apparently beat his victims to death either before or while raping them.

* ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' had an episode where a woman who'd been in a coma for five years turned out to be pregnant. One of the suspects was a security guard who'd been fired from a funeral home for unclear reasons, though those reasons became a lot more clear when the detectives tracked down a hooker who said the guard had asked her to lie in a tub of ice water before engaging in... relations.

** A more recent episode had police walk upon what seemed to be a drug rape in the park. The man claimed that he didn't drug her and that he thought she was dead.

* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': Patty the Daytime Hooker mentions in "Our Cops Is On" that the reason she has her hand inside a vending machine is because she's getting it nice and cold for a guy who's into dead people (though she was probably just stuck and lying).

* ''Tittybangbang'' had the characters of Parker and Harris, two pathologists who would frequently stop in the middle of an investigation to have sex with the corpse because, in Parker's words, "[[Double Entendre|I can't resist a stiffy]]"

{{quote| '''Varys:''' ''(dripping with sarcasm)'' Must be enormously difficult to accommodate that inclination. The logistics alone... to find beautiful corpses before they rot. }}

== Music ==

** Also by Voltaire, "Anastasia". Whether he killed her or not is debatable, but it's creepy as all get out.

** There's a brief mention of a dead girl being one of the available prostitutes in "Cathouse Tragedy."

* The Meteors' "Corpse Grinder", which contains the line "See you later / [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|In my refrigerator]]." It's [[Dead Baby Comedy|hilariously monstrous.]]

* There is an entire ''sub-genre'' of [[Filk Song|Filk Songs]] based on necrophilia humor - not a very large one, but big enough to contribute to filk's peculiar reputation. Notable songs include "Dear Departed" by Bob Kanefsky, "Some Girls..." and "Zombie Wedding" by Seanan McGuire, and "Dead Girl Polka" by Frank Hayes. "Mary O'Meara" doesn't quite count, but it seems to have inspired a few that do.

** And, of course, the [[Trope Namer]] ''[[I Love the Dead]]''.

** Don't forget "Blue Turk."

* [[Tom Petty (Music)|Tom Petty]]'s ''Last Dance for Mary Jane'' (music video only)

{{quote| "My only complaint's the perfume she wears<br />

A mix of rancid milk and mouldy pears" }}

Love the Unliving<br />

No skins attached }}

* "Evil" by [[Music/Mercyful Fate|Mercyful Fate]] drifts into this trope:

{{quote| And when you're down<br />

* T.S.O.L.'s "Code Blue". Specifically, the narrator has turned to necrophilia because he "never got along with the girls at my school, filling me up with all their morals and their rules".

* "Black Dress" by Kisschasy. And very pretty it is too.

{{quote| ''I got blood on my hands, and there's no remorse / I got blood on my dick 'cause I '''fucked a corpse!'''''}}

* [[Opeth]]'s "The Leper Affinity".

* [[Rammstein]]'s "Heirate Mich."

== Mythology ==

== Tabletop Games ==

** It doesn't help that the bloodline draws their members exclusively from an extremely depraved and inbred Venetian family of ''faux''-Catholics. Strangely enough, they tend to be rather rich and well-educated... in the occult.

** To make matters worse, [[Word of God]] says that they allied with a legacy of wizards known as the Tremere Liches, a group of mortal necromancers who steal the souls of others to prolong their own lives. It's easy to see why they make such wonderful music together.

** The fact that [[Fridge Logic|your character knows what the fine is]] [[Epileptic Trees|raises interesting thoughts about why you start the game in jail]].

* One dungeon in its sequel, [[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]] , involves a necromancer fleeing his home town for various reasons - who is overjoyed to find a tomb filled with only female undead.

* In ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin]]'', the ending actually involves a case of "reverse necrophilia" with {{spoiler|Sgt. Becket being sexually assaulted by the technically-dead Alma's corporeal body, glimpses of which he gets flashes of while hallucinating a battle with an apparition of a squadmate gone mad.}}

* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]: Assault on Dark Athena'', ex-mercenary Athena inmate Jaylor states in no uncertain terms that he intends to do this to Sarah Silverman after first killing her as soon as the prisoner riot starts. {{spoiler|Riddick ensures he doesn't}}.

* The trope was played for laughs for a while in the "adult" webcomic ''[[Sexy Losers]]''... then a fairy that brings sex dolls to life mistook her for a sex doll and resurrected her, and things started getting '''really''' weird.

** A ''lot'' of the jokes in ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' revolve around Necrophilia; including one character who's just "following the family tradition", likes to talk pretty girls into suicide, and gets a "dream job" at a mortuary. Oh, and he finds that (WARNING don't read this, [[Squick|it's disgusting]]!) {{spoiler|maggots tickle}}. ([[Schmuck Bait|Told ya]].)

* Played with (what isn't?) in ''[[Order of the Stick]]''.

{{quote| '''Tsukiko''': I love the undead. And I mean I really ''love'' the undead!<br />