List of works published posthumously - Definition

Films

• Enter the Dragon, following Bruce Lee's death.
• Eyes Wide Shut, premiering July 13, 1999 after filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's death on March 7 of the same year.
• The Crow, following actor Brandon Lee's death from a stunt-related accident.
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956), following the death in an automobile accident of actor James Dean in September 1955, just days after filming on the latter was completed. He received a posthumous Best Actor Oscar nomination for Giant.
• Brainstorm (movie) (1983), nearly two years after the drowning death of actress Natalie Wood, who was working on the film at the time.
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), following the death of actor, Vic Morrow, in a helicopter accident on the set, which also claimed the lives of two child co-stars.
• The Misfits (February 1, 1961), released on what would have been actor Clark Gable's 60th birthday. He had died three months earlier of a heart attack, brought on in part, according to later reports, by the stress of difficulties working with co-star, Marilyn Monroe. It was also her last film; she died in August 1962.

Literature

• The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Music

• MTV Unplugged in New York, on November 1, 1994 after singer/songwriter Kurt Cobain's death on April 5 of the same year; also From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah and Nirvana.
• Numerous albums by Tupac Shakur
• Closer, in August 1980, after the suicide of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis on May 17 of that year. The remaining members of Joy Division later went on to form New Order.