"Come Sweet Death..." . Content Warning.
"Come sweet death, one last caress..." The Misfits
I've written two books on the subject of graverobbers and necrophiles. One from a fictional standpoint, but based on the very real case of Otto Carl Tanzler, a.k.a. "Count von Cosel," a man from the 1930s who robbed the tomb he constructed for the adored object of his infatuation, Cuban immigrant and tuberculoid Elena Milagro De Hoyos, who died in 1928 and who was a beautiful, tricky little thing that enraptured the weird old "Doctor" Count, who wrote in a later, largely fictionalized memoir about the various quack nostrums he used to try and preserve her fast-fading life. He didn't succeed, of course, but, in my novel, he manages, like Herbert West in then-contemporary author H.P. Lovecraft's famous story of the "Reanimator," to bring "His Darling Rose" back to life.
