The Necrophiliac
The Necrophiliac () is the debut novel by French writer, Gabrielle Wittkop (1920–2002), written in 1972. A transgressive, epistolary novel in the form of a diary, follows the life of Parisian necrophile, Lucien N. The middle-aged antique dealer appears normal to the outside world, but lives a secret life at night, searching for corpses to satisfy his macabre fetish, digging up bodies from Montparnasse Cemetery to the catacombs of Naples. The novel was not translated into English until 2011, by Don Bapst.