The Dead in Love

“The Dead in Love [La morte amoureuse]” by Théophile Gautier

A priest falls in love with a woman who may be dead, who may be a vampire, who may exist only in his dreams. This is a fascinating study of identity, desire, and transgression in one of Gautier’s most sophisticated Fantastic tales.

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(English) Gautier, Théophile. "The Dead in Love." Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Joan Kessler. U Chicago P, 1995.

(French) Gautier, Théophile. Récits fantastiques. [Fantastic Tales]. Paris: Flammarion, 1981.