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 Stray Dog (short story collection) The Stray Dog (short story collection) The Stray Dog (, "Sag-e Velgard") is a 1942 short story collection by Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat. "The Stray Dog" was first published by the Bazargani Nejat publication in Tehran in 1942. It consists of eight short stories and is Sadegh Hedayat's last short story collection. The exact writing time of these short stories is unknown today, however based on what Hadayat had written in his letters, it is believed that most of these short stories had been written before 1942. Before 1942, Hedayat wasn't able to publish anything, because of Reza Shah's censorship