The Living Corpse (Russian: Живой труп) is a Gothic novel written by Vladimir Odoyevsky in 1838 and published in 1844.

Written in the first person, it tells the story of Vasilii Kuz'mich Aristidov, who wakes up one morning to find himself a ghost.^[1] A work of social satire, the novel can be read on several levels, and is considered a vehicle for Odoyevsky's own philosophical ideas.^[2]