Note: First published in Claude Vignon's collection Minuit ! récits de la veillée, Paris, Amyot, 1856, then in Contes à faire peur, Leipzig, Durr, 1857.

Synopsis: A young and slightly tipsy medical student finds himself locked up in an autopsy amphitheatre on All Souls' Eve. The corpses on the dissecting tables come back to life, complain about their sorry situation and explain they can still feel pain. A young girl who died of consumption gives him a kiss that will haunt him all his life long, and eventually cause his untimely death.