Dead -- Fiction

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• Dead
• Death -- Fiction
• Fiction

• Mummies -- Fiction
• Suicide victims -- Fiction

• A Silent Witness, by R. Austin Freeman (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Jewel of Seven Stars (based on the original 1903 version), by Bram Stoker
  • HTML at online-literature.com
  • page images at Google; US access only
• The Jewel of Seven Stars (1912 revised version), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
• The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension, by George Chetwynd Griffith (Gutenberg text)

• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (HTML at classicreader.com)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, ed. by Eleanor Marx Aveling (Gutenberg text)
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Monster Island (2006), by David Wellington (HTML with commentary at davidwellington.net)
• Monster Nation (2005), by David Wellington (HTML with commentary at davidwellington.net)
• Monster Planet (2007), by David Wellington (HTML with commentary at davidwellington.net)

• The 8th King's Regiment: A Curiosity in its Annals (Toronto: Copp, Clark Co., 1894), by Henry Scadding (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Graveyard Book (read by the author in its entirety; 2008), by Neil Gaiman (Flash videos with commentary at mousecircus.com)

• The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Lesley Alexandra Sharp (HTML at UC Press)

• The Religious System of the Amazulu (English only), by Henry Callaway (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Intermediate State and Prayers for the Dead, Examined in the Light of Scripture, and of Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1900), by Charles H. H. Wright (multiple formats at Google)

• Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them, Considered in Relation to Their Possible Bearing on His Portraiture, by C. M. Ingleby (Gutenberg text)

• The Altar of the Dead, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Crooked Letter (2006), by Sean Williams (PDF with commentary at pyrsf.com)
• The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Shanks Maude and Aylmer Maude (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Legend (London: Heinemann, 1919), by Clemence Dane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (2010), ed. by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki ! (PDF files with commentary at machineofdeath.net)

• Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio (first series; 1853), by Fanny Fern, illust. by Frederick M. Coffin (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)

• Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (2010), ed. by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki ! (PDF files with commentary at machineofdeath.net)

• Messiah (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1954), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wieland: or, The Transformation, by Charles Brockden Brown (HTML at Virginia)

• The Abandoned Room: A Mystery Story (1917), by Wadsworth Camp (Gutenberg text)

• To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Dead Man's Message: An Occult Romance, by Florence Marryat (HTML at munseys.com)

• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook (page images at Google; US access only)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Beginner's Guide to Writing a Novel (fourth edition, 2006), by Marina Oliver (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest Albert Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

• The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes), by James Branch Cabell (HTML at Virginia)
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF and Flash with commentary at parlorpress.com)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, ideology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

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