Belle Necropolis : ghosts of imperial Vienna Necropolis : Introduction to the ghosts of imperial Vienna 1. Excursus from the crypt : In memoriam by Helene Vetsera ; Postscript by Heinrich Baltazzi Scharschmid 2. From Mayerlings ghosts to todays revenants : An introduction to the memory cultures of Austria 3. The persistence of Mitteleuropa in memory : The ghosts of Central Europe ; a) Travels across Habsburg Europe ; b) Narrating politics : The appeal to biopolitics ; c) Habsburg wraiths : The case of Jörg Haider ; d) Ghosts of Austria 4. Habsburg nostalgia as postmemory and what comes after ; a) Science fiction Habsburgiana ; b) Revisiting the action : Twitting the allies ; c) History memory and collective trauma 5. Glücklich ist wer [nicht] vergisst : From Broadway to the necropolis ; a) Habsburg revenants : Broadway an der Wien ; b) Broadway an der Wien : The West End East ; c) Some conclusions : The musical as Austrian popular culture 6. Building the Habsburg subject : Scholarly historical fictions ; a) Prussian cold war Vienna : From the public to the academy ; b) Schorskes Modernist fin de siècle ; c) The Ringstrasse as a social textual project ; d) Some conclusions : The ideology of Austrian historicism Afterword : Beyond necrophilia Appendix : a) An introduction to the Denkschrift ; b) Denkschrift by Baroness Helene Vetsera