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A short story (originally in German as Die Todtenbraut ) that inspired much of the folklore surrounding the "corpse bride" legend.

Coralia is beautiful in a rotting way—one eye hollow, a maggot twined in her braid, but her voice a haunting mezzo-soprano. She declares them bound by eternal vow. Terrified, Victor is dragged underground. la sposa cadavere