This story is set in the year 1930, and begins with a fortuitous encounter between a doctor and a patient on Key West Island, Florida, because Elena de Hoyos goes with Dr. Carl Tanzler to cure her, because she had fallen ill with tuberculosis, and this man was reputed to perform unorthodox methods to treat his patients. The beauty of this young woman would captivate the doctor so much that he could never let her go, even after death.


Although Carl did everything possible to save her, the beautiful Elena died at the young age of 22, her whole family was shattered but not as much as the doctor, whose love he felt for her was not pure and benign, but selfish and sinister, because the man offered to pay funeral expenses and build a mausoleum for Elena in the pantheon, so that the underground meters would not separate his beloved from him.


From the first night Elena spent in the pantheon, her lover disturbed her peace, because he arrived where she was resting, entered the mausoleum and began to talk with her, and although it already seems a little creepy to me, it's nothing compared to what is coming, because the coffin was prepared so that the doctor could supply her with substances embalmers, in order to keep your body intact forever


For two years, there was no night that the doctor did not visit Elena's body; he talked to her and supplied her with the substances, Carl never opened the coffin until Elena asked him to release her from that confinement, because he claimed that she communicated with him, so he fulfilled his wish by taking her to live with him.


His body was not in the best condition, so Carl joined his bones with piano strings, replaced his organs with bandages soaked with formaldehyde, put on a wig and a mask based on his beauty, and changed his eyes for glass ones. He put on a wedding dress and perfumed it constantly, and when night came he slept next to his corpse bride, for 7 long years.


Well, unfortunately for him, the neighborhood began to talk about his strange attitudes, so one day Carl was away, Elena's sister sneaked into the house, and in a horrible way, she was reunited with her sister who died almost 10 years ago.


Although it seems incredible, this case captivated the inhabitants of the city, because for them Carl was a man in love and Elena a lucky woman, as if it were “Romeo and Juliet”, the followers were so moved that they released their idol, paying the fine due.


After so many years of agony that Elena's spirit surely passed, her family buried her body in a secret place, to make sure it wasn't desecrated, and this time her rest was eternal.

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