“Real understanding becomes possible only when we realize in what way necrophobia and necrophilia belong to two different world-designs.”

“Does it rest on the same fascination with incest and necrophilia as the original?”

“Although other serial murderers had claimed far more victims, Dahmer's crimes were particularly gruesome, involving cannibalism and necrophilia.”

“Latin Americans have a necrophiliac streak, and the opposition, though stronger than in the past, is reeling from defeat in presidential and regional elections last year.”

“The monstrous mutations that ensue allow Burton to reference a handful of other scary movies, not just the Frankenstein pictures but Hitchcock thrillers such as The Birds and even, in its necrophiliac overtones, Vertigo.”

“He is happy to have something like a regular job after a life more or less on the run, having been drummed out of his Sicilian hometown as a teenager for rumoured necrophiliac tendencies.”

“The necrophile might fetishise the feel of dead skin, or the point of death, or the idea of being a vampire.”

“Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, until 28 October Henry Moore Official art, mysteriously popular with necrophile modernists.”