Lafayette College Library

Just in time for Halloween, Irene recommends some reads with a common ghoulish theme: the afterlife of corpses. Never one to shy away from fetishes, Irene is especially intrigued by the bodies of political or religious figures.

Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach

Lenin Lives! the Lenin cult in Soviet Russia by Nina Tumarkin

Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez

Magnificent corpses: Searching through Europe for St. Peter's head, St. Chiara's heart, St. Stephen's hand, and other saints' relics by Anneli S. Rufus

Furta sacra: Thefts of relics in the central Middle Ages by Patrick J. Geary