Contemporary Iraqi literature is distinguished by a novel type that is clearly directed to express repressed souls from the topics that ravaged Iraq due to the policies that prevailed before April 2003. Novelists began to penetrate new paths that freely expressed the suffering of the Iraqi people. (The Dead of Baghdad) is one of those novels which revealed the nature of life that the Iraqis lived in its various circumstances, in addition to the tragedy added by the American occupation. The novelist Jamal Hussein Ali embodied it in an artistic way that is immersed in science fiction that could breach horizons of expectation of its recipients. The literary work is not just a text, but it is a mixture and combination between the text and its recipients. Hence, the present study aims to examine the novel (The Dead of Baghdad) from the perspective of the aesthetics of reception to find out the features of creativity and uniqueness that distinguished this novel and printed it with a fantasy aesthetic character.