The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness. The sadness and often depression, the lack of will to continue may swamp us all. Unquenchable, undeniable. But loss can, after mourning, give the opportunity to reappraise the lost and how we can each move forward. In the literary world an accessible balance can be given.In this volume Anton Chekhov, H P Lovecraft, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and many, many others bring their pens to bear on this most heartfelt of subjects.Genius has many names.1 - Short Stories About Death, Dying and Loss - An Introduction2 - The Dead by James Joyce3 - The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad4 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe5 - Living or Dead by Rabrindinath Tagore6 - Misery by Anton Chekhov7 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather8 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield9 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev10 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe11 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence12 - Laura by Saki13 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev14 - The Law of Life by Jack London15 - The Facts in the Case of Monsieur Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe16 - The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet17 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield18 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce19 - What the Moon Brings by H P Lovecraft20 - The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin21 - Eveline by James Joyce22 - The Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield23 - In No Strange Land by Katharine Butler24 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte25 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore26 - The Matador of Five Towns by Arnold Bennett27 - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne