Victorian poetry is littered with women’s corpses—and sometimes they are sexy. This chapter analyses two examples of early Victorian poems in which women’s corpses are, within the narrative, treated as erotic objects. In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’, the corpse’s beauty is the only meaning that can be gleaned from it, affirming a discourse of romantic attraction that does not strictly require the lover to be alive. Robert Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, with its story of an erotic murder, is even more explicit in its necrophiliac content, but also even more pointed in its critique of the romantic overtures of the living. Both poems use the love of dead bodies to criticise practices of romance and courtship among those who are not yet dead. In this way, the poets shed light on the darkness of Victorian romantic principles—principles that still shape concepts of love today.