The Dead (short story) and Shaun Davey, which won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. The original production starred Christopher Walken as Gabriel Conroy. Joyce Carol Oates's 1973 story "The Dead" makes many allusions to Joyce's story. The Dead (short story) "The Dead" is the final story in the 1914 collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, "The Dead" is long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. Gabriel Conroy,
The Suicide Club (short story collection) The Suicide Club (short story collection) The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the "London Magazine "in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the "New Arabian Nights". The trilogy introduces the characters of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and his sidekick Colonel Geraldine. In this cycle they infiltrate a secret society of people intent on losing their lives. It has been described as: "The Prince’s investigation of the macabre club and its criminally inclined president