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Dead Love

Algernon Charles Swinburne

First published October 1862
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In a civil war, the knight Jacques killed Messire Olivier and was himself killed. Olivier's friend Amaury delivered Jacques's corpse to Olivier's wife Madame Yolande so that she could rejoice; but instead, she became enamored of the dead knight and spent days kissing the corpse. It eventually became possessed by an evil spirit and revived.

"Dead Love" was originally published in Once-a-Week, vol. vii, October 11, 1862, pp. 432-4.

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October 1862 Once a Week, October 11, 1862 MAGAZINE
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