Introduction - 1 | Empty Tombs and Apparitions: A Reflection on the Theological Significance of the Exhumation of the emains of John Henry Newman. - 2 | John Donne, Undone, Redone: the John Donne Monument Reconsidered. - 3 | Stalin's Death and Afterlife. - 4 | The Mutilation and Non-Burial of the Dead in Homer's Iliad. - 5 | Identity and the Act of Dying: Sketching a Philosophical Perspective. - 6 | 'emotional rather than cerebral'? Charles Villiers Stanford's Requiem. - 7 | Arrigo Boito and Giovanni Verga: the Body, Illness and Death in Mastro-don Gesualdo. - 8 | Death, Medicine, Literature: Foucault in 1963.