List of works published posthumously  

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The following is a list of works that were published, performed or distributed posthumously (after the parties involved in its creation died).

Drama

• Bertolt Brecht — Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer, The Horatians and the Curiatians, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Visions of Simone Machard, Schweik in the Second World War, The Days of the Commune, Coriolanus, Turandot
• Georg Büchner — Woyzeck
• Euripides — Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis
• Federico García Lorca — The Billy-Club Puppets, The Public, When Five Years Pass, Play Without a Title, The House of Bernarda Alba
• Jean Genet — Her, Splendid's
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Faust Part Two
• Sarah Kane — 4.48 Psychosis
• Jonathan Larson — Rent
• Eugene O'Neill — Hughie, Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Touch of the Poet, More Stately Mansions, The Calms of Capricorn
• Joe Orton — Funeral Games, What the Butler Saw, Up Against It
• Sophocles — Oedipus at Colonus

Films

Films whose director died before the release

• All of Louis Le Prince's surviving films, following his mysterious disappearance in 1890.
• Tabu (1931), released a week after F.W. Murnau's death in a car accident.
• Ambush (1950), released four months after Sam Wood's death from a heart attack.
• The Fly (1958), released just over a week after Kurt Neumann's death.
• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976), released twenty days after the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
• Lightning Over Water (1980), released over a year after the death of co-director Nicholas Ray from lung cancer.
• Querelle (1982), released two months after the death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder from a lethal mixture of sleeping pills and cocaine.
• Blue Sky (1994), released nearly three years after Tony Richardson's death.
• Be a Wicked Woman (1990), shelved by director Kim Ki-young and screened publicly in 1998, following his death in a house fire.
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999), premiering July 13, 1999 after filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's death on March 7, 1999 of a heart attack.
• California Dreamin' (2007), following Cristian Nemescu's death in a car crash.
• Waitress (2007), released after the murder of Adrienne Shelly.
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008), TV film pilot, aired five days after Anthony Minghella's death.
• Dhaam Dhoom (2008), a Tamil (Indian language) movie co-written and partly directed by Jeeva shortly before his death.
• Buy a Suit (2008), released after the death of Jun Ichikawa.
• Casino Jack (2010), released just over a month after the death of George Hickenlooper.

Films whose screenwriter died before the release

• King Kong (1933), a year after the death of Edgar Wallace due to complications from diabetes.
• The Night of the Hunter (1955), four months after James Agee's death from a heart attack.
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980), over two years after Leigh Brackett's death from cancer.
• Heaven (2002), Hell (2005), and Purgatory (2007), all following the death of Krzysztof Kieślowski in 1996.
• Serious Moonlight (2009), over three years after Adrienne Shelly's murder.
• Nine (2009), over a year after co-writer Anthony Minghella's death from a cancer-related hemorrhage.

Films whose actor/actress died before the release

In several cases, actors or actresses have died prior to the release of a film: either during filming or after it has been completed, but is yet to be released. In the case that the actor dies during filming, their scenes are often completed by stunt doubles, or through special effects. Only people who actually appear in some capacity in a posthumously released film are listed here. Those who were scheduled to start a project, but died before filming began, are not included.

• Foolish Wives (1922), Rudolph Christians (father of Mady Christians) was playing the central part of the ambassador in this film directed by Erich Von Stroheim. Christians died in the middle of production, forcing Von Stroheim to bring in actor Robert Edeson (back to camera) to finish Christian's scenes.
• The Warrens of Virginia (1924), almost a year after the death of actress Martha Mansfield at the age of 24. On November 30, 1923, while working on location in San Antonio, Texas on the film The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was severely burned when a match, tossed by a cast member, ignited her Civil War costume of hoopskirts and flimsy ruffles. Mansfield was playing the role of Agatha Warren and had just finished her scenes and retired to a car when her clothing burst into flames. Her neck and face were saved when leading man Wilfred Lytell threw his heavy overcoat over her. The chauffeur of Mansfield's car was burned badly on his hands while trying to remove the burning clothing from the actress. The fire was put out, but she sustained substantial burns to her body. She was rushed to a Physicians and Surgeons Hospital in San Antonio, where she died in less than twenty-four hours; however, most of Mansfield's scenes had already been shot, so production on the film continued.
• Son of the Sheik (1926), was publicly released a month following the death of Rudolph Valentino, although the premiere was a month prior to Valentino's death.
• The Miracle Man (1932), less than five months after the death of Tyrone Power, Sr. Power was in the midst of filming the title role in a remake of the 1919 film, but collapsed and died of a heart attack in the arms of his son, Tyrone Power, Jr., while on the set; Power's part was taken up by Hobart Bosworth, but his work was not refilmed.
• Saratoga (1937), following the death of Jean Harlow with 90% of filming completed. A body-double and two voice-doubles completed the filming in Harlow's role.<ref name=bbc>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Captain America (1944), whose later segments arrived at theatres following the death of Dick Purcell, just a few weeks after shooting had wrapped.
• Lost City of the Jungle (1946), following the death of Lionel Atwill, from pneumonia, while filming this serial. Atwill was playing the mastermind villain, Sir Eric Hazarias, a foreign spy chief. Universal could not afford to throw out the footage already filmed so they were forced to adapt the serial. First, another villain (Malborn, played by John Mylong, who was originally just a servant of Sir Eric) was introduced as the boss of Atwill's character to take over most of the villain requirements of the film. Secondly, a double of Atwill was used to complete his remaining scenes. The double was filmed from behind and remained silent. The villain's henchmen were filmed repeating their orders back to the silent double and stock footage of Atwill was edited in to show a response.
• My Son John (1952), eight months after the death of Robert Walker, from an allergic reaction to sodium amytal given to him by his psychiatrist. Because Walker died in the middle of production, parts of the film were heavily rewritten; several scenes use a double shot from behind, and others recycle footage of Walker from Strangers on a Train. The final scene, where a recording of John delivers an anti-Communist speech, is lit with a halo around the tape-recorder.
• 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.
• Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957) and Jailhouse Rock (1957), both released after Judy Tyler's sudden death in a car accident, alongside her husband.
• The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959) and The World of Abbott and Costello (1965), both released after the death of Lou Costello of Abbott and Costello fame.
• Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), following Bela Lugosi's death. He died having filmed two minutes of footage.<ref name=bbc/> This footage, not shot for Plan 9, but for two separate, unfinished Ed Wood projects, was combined and then inter-cut with new footage featuring a double, Tom Mason, who looked nothing like Lugosi, in order to put a credit for Lugosi on the picture.<ref name=bbc/>
• Solomon and Sheba (1959), following Tyrone Power's death of a sudden heart attack; having completed 75% of the required shooting, Power's death forced the production to recast the role with Yul Brynner and reshoot most of Power's scenes. Footage of Power, however, was retained for long shots, such as in the sword fighting sequence toward the end of the film, and reels featuring the rest of Power's performance are rumored to be kept locked away in vaults to this day.
• The Misfits (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.
• Advise & Consent (1962), where, appearing in two scenes as Senator McCafferty, who whenever awakened from a deep sleep automatically responds "Opposed, sir! Opposed!", was 87-year-old Henry F. Ashurst, one of the first senators elected by the state of Arizona and served five terms. Ashurst died on May 31, 1962, a week before the film's premiere.
• From Russia with Love (1963). released nearly four months after the suicide of Pedro Armendáriz, following a long development of terminal cancer that culminated during filming.
• Muscle Beach Party (1964) and The Patsy (1964), both released after the death of Peter Lorre.
• Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966), released a month after the suicide of John Reynolds, who played Torgo.
• The Gnome-Mobile (1967), following the death of old-school funnyman Ed Wynn.
• The Jungle Book (1967), following actress Verna Felton's death. She voiced Colonel Hathi's wife, Winifred the elephant.
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), following the death of veteran actor Spencer Tracy, who also posthumously received his ninth Oscar nomination.<ref name="movies.yahoo.com">http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/gonebutnotforgotten_blog.html</ref>
• The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), following the death of noted comic actor Bert Lahr; due to his death during production, his role was posthumously made smaller, and what footage needed to be reshot for scenes where Lahr had completed his close-ups employed burlesque legend Joey Faye, shot from behind, to fill in for Lahr.
• The Wild Bunch (1969), released over a year after the death by autoerotic asphyxiation of Albert Dekker, who played Pat Harrigan, the railroad detective.
• The Thirteen Chairs (1969), following the death of Sharon Tate (her last film before her murder).
• Isle of the Snake People (1971) and The Incredible Invasion (1971), both following the death of Boris Karloff.
• Soylent Green (1973), three months after the death of Edward G. Robinson, who himself had died twelve days after shooting on the film wrapped.
• Enter the Dragon (1973) and Game of Death (1978), following Bruce Lee's death; the latter was completed using several voice and body doubles throughout the film.
• The Strongest Man in the World (1975) and The Rescuers (1977), both released after Joe Flynn's death in 1974.
• Watership Down (1978), following the death of Zero Mostel.
• The Deer Hunter (1978), following the death of actor John Cazale.
• Force 10 from Navarone (1978) and Avalanche Express (1979), both following Robert Shaw's death.
• Brubaker (1980), releaed just under a year after the death of Richard Ward.
• The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), released less than a month after Peter Sellers's death from a heart attack.
• They All Laughed (1981), released exactly a year after Dorothy Stratten's murder.
• Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), which went into production a year after Peter Sellers's death, used deleted footage from The Pink Panther Strikes Again and various flashbacks to other previous films in the series to construct a "performance" from him.
• Brainstorm (1983), nearly two years after the drowning death of actress Natalie Wood, who was acting in the film at the time. A body-double and obscuring camera techniques were used to complete Wood's scenes.<ref name=bbc/>
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), following the death of Vic Morrow, in a helicopter accident on the set, which also claimed the lives of two child co-stars.
• Yellowbeard (1983) and Slapstick of Another Kind (1984; U.S. release), following Marty Feldman's death.
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), both following the death of Ralph Richardson.
• 1984 (1984), following the death of Richard Burton.
• The Chain (1984), released two months after the death of Charlotte Long.
• The Transformers: The Movie (1986) and Someone to Love (1987), released after Orson Welles' death in 1985.
• The Big Easy (1987) and She Must Be Seeing Things (1988), both released after Charles Ludlam's death.
• Poltergeist III (1988), following the death of child actress Heather O'Rourke.
• She's Having a Baby (1988), following Cathryn Damon's death.
• The Chair (1988) and That's Adequate (1989), both following James Coco's death in 1987.
• The Land Before Time (1988) and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), both following the murder of child actress Judith Barsi.
• The Return of the Musketeers (1989) and The Princess and the Goblin (1992), both released after the death of Roy Kinnear.
• UHF (1989), following the death of Trinidad Silva.
• Jetsons: The Movie (1990), following the deaths of George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc, the respective voices of George Jetson and Mr. Spacely.
• The Thief and the Cobbler (1993), released after the death of Vincent Price.
• Gettysburg (1993), following the death of actor Richard Jordan, who portrayed Confederate Brig. Gen. Lewis "Lo" Armistead.
• Silent Tongue (1994), released after the death of River Phoenix.
• The Crow (1994), following Brandon Lee's death from an accident while filming on the set.
• Corrina, Corrina (1994), following the death of actor Don Ameche.
• Wagons East! (1994) and Canadian Bacon (1995), both following John Candy's death. This was the first time CGI had been used to complete an actor's scene after their death.<ref name=bbc/>
• Radioland Murders (1994), following the death of Anita Morris.
• Camilla (1994) and Nobody's Fool (1995; U.S. release), both released after the death of actress Jessica Tandy.
• Street Fighter (1994) and Down Came a Blackbird (1995), both following the death of Raul Julia.
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), following Donald Pleasence's death.
• A Goofy Movie (1995), following the death of Pat Buttram.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), following the death of Mary Wickes, who voiced Laverne the gargoyle, from cancer; because she died before finishing the required voicework on the film, the producers hired Jane Withers to provide the remaining dialogue.
• Bullet (1996), Gridlock'd (1997) and Gang Related (1997), all released after the murder of Tupac Shakur.
• Lost Highway (1997), released less than a month after the death of Jack Nance.
• Almost Heroes (1998) and Dirty Work (1998), both following Chris Farley's death; the former was completed with the help of a body double.
• The Negotiator (1998) and Pleasantville (1998), both released after the death of J. T. Walsh.
• Small Soldiers (1998) and Kiki's Delivery Service (1998; U.S. release), both following the murder of Phil Hartman.
• A Bug's Life (1998), released after the death of actor Roddy McDowall.
• Toy Story 2 (1999), Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000; direct-to-video), Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001; direct-to-video) and Balto II: Wolf Quest (2002; direct-to-video), all following Mary Kay Bergman's suicide in 1999.
• Gladiator (2000), following the death of Oliver Reed. CGI was used to complete Reed's scenes.<ref name=bbc/>
• Daddy and Them (2001) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), both released after the death of Jim Varney.
• Queen of the Damned (2002), following Aaliyah's death.
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), following the death of Richard Harris.
• Anger Management (2003), following Lynne Thigpen's death, who made a cameo appearance as Judge Brenda Daniels.
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003), following the death of actress Gloria Foster.
• Bad Santa (2003) and Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004), both released after John Ritter's death.
• Polar Express (2004) after the death of Michael Jeter.
• Bad Girls From Valley High (2005), two years following Jonathan Brandis' death.
• Lords of Dogtown (2005), following Mitch Hedberg's death.
• Kronk's New Groove (2005; direct-to-video), following the death of John Fiedler.
• Angels with Angles (2005) and The Onion Movie (2008), both following the death of Rodney Dangerfield.
• Everyone's Hero (2006), released after Dana Reeve's death.
• Happy Feet (2006), following the death of Steve Irwin.
• Cars (2006), following Joe Ranft's death.
• Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006), following the deaths of Marlon Brando and Christopher Reeve; for sequences where shots of Reeve had never been filmed, a double was used.
• Air Buddies (2006; direct-to-video), following the deaths of Patrick Cranshaw and Don Knotts.
• Illegal Aliens (2007), following Anna Nicole Smith's death.
• Waitress (2007), released after the murder of actress Adrienne Shelly.<ref name="movies.yahoo.com"/>
• TMNT (2007), following the death of Mako.
• All Roads Lead Home (2008), following Peter Boyle's death.
• Delgo (2008), following the deaths of Anne Bancroft and John Vernon.
• The Dark Knight (2008) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), both released after Heath Ledger's death. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell completed filming for Ledger's role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, while filming for The Dark Knight had already been completed.<ref name=bbc/>
• The Informers (2008), following the death of Brad Renfro.
• Stargate: Continuum (2008), Far Cry (2008) and The Uninvited (2009), all following the death of Don S. Davis.
• Soul Men (2008), following the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes.
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) and Old Dogs (2009), both following Bernie Mac's death.
• Royal Kill (2009) This is the final film by Pat Morita, who died in 2005 shortly after completion of the film.
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), following the murder of actor Rob Knox.
• Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009), following Michael Jackson's death.
• Deadline (2010) and Abandoned (2010), released after the death of Brittany Murphy.
• The Wildest Dream (2010), following the death of actress Natasha Richardson.
• Alpha and Omega (2010), following Dennis Hopper's death.
• Barney's Version (2010), Casino Jack (2010), Conduct Unbecoming (2010), and The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour (2011), all following the death of Maury Chaykin.
• Love and Other Drugs (2010) and Bridesmaids (2011), both following the death of Jill Clayburgh.
• Iron Cross (2011), to be released after the death of Roy Scheider.
• Killing Bono (2011), to be released after the death of Pete Postlethwaite.
• The Waterman Movie (2011), to be released after Leslie Nielsen's death.
• Frankenweenie (2012), to be released after Glenn Shadix's death.

Literature

• Douglas Adams — The Salmon of Doubt
• James Agee — A Death in the Family (initial publication assembled by David McDowell; alternate assembly later published by Michael Lofaro)
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Shira
• Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation
• Jane Austen — Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
• Cyrano de Bergerac — The Other World: The States and Empires of the Moon and The States and Empires of the Sun
• Hélène Berr — The Journal of Hélène Berr
• Roberto Bolaño — 2666
• Richard Brautigan — An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey
• Charles Bukowski — over twenty books of poetry and short stories after his 1994 death.
• Mikhail Bulgakov — The Master and Margarita
• William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac — And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
• Samuel Butler — The Way of All Flesh
• Julius Caesar — Commentarii de Bello Civili
• Albert Camus — The First Man
• Xueqin Cao (trad.) — Dream of the Red Chamber
• Angela Carter — American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, The Curious Room
• Raymond Chandler — Poodle Springs (with Robert B. Parker)
• Geoffrey Chaucer — The Canterbury Tales, Treatise on the Astrolabe
• Agatha Christie — Sleeping Murder
• Robert Cormier — The Rag and Bone Shop
• Michael Crichton — Pirate Latitudes
• Adam Czerniakow — The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom
• Roald Dahl — Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety
• Rene Daumal — Mount Analogue
• D.J. Davies — Towards Welsh Freedom
• Philip K. Dick — Gather Yourselves Together, Radio Free Albemuth, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, Voices from the Street
• Charles Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Emily Dickinson — virtually all of her poems, as well as her letters.
• Siobhan Dowd — Bog Child, Solace of the Road
• Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (with Claude Schopp)
• Ralph Ellison — Juneteenth, Three Days Before the Shooting...
• Hans Fallada — Every Man Dies Alone
• Julius Feldman — The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman
• F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Love of the Last Tycoon
• Gustave Flaubert — Bouvard et Pécuchet
• Ian Fleming — The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and the Living Daylights
• Moshe Flinker — Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe
• C. S. Forester — Hornblower and the Crisis
• E. M. Forster — Maurice
• Anne Frank — The Diary of a Young Girl
• Julius Fučík — Notes from the Gallows
• Petr Ginz — The Diary of Petr Ginz
• Alex Hailey — Queen: The Story of an American Family
• Kenneth Halliwell — Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser (with Joe Orton)
• Jean Harlow — Today is Tonight (with Carey Wilson)
• E. Lynn Harris — Mama Dearest
• Jaroslav Hašek — The Good Soldier Švejk, intended as a six-volume work, but Hašek had only finished four at the time of his death by tuberculosis.
• Robert A. Heinlein — For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, written in 1939, but not published until 2003, 15 years after his death.
• Joseph Heller — Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
• Ernest Hemingway — Islands in the Stream, True at First Light, and A Moveable Feast
• Hergé — Tintin and Alph-Art (assembled by Benoît Peeters, Michel Bareau and Jean-Manuel Duvivier)
• Eva Heyman — The Diary of Éva Heyman
• Etty Hillesum — An Interrupted Life : the Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
• C.L.R. James — American Civilization
• Tove Jansson — The True Deceiver and Traveling Light et al
• W.E. Johns — Biggles Does Some Homewrok, Biggles: Air Ace
• Robert Jordan — The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, and A Memory of Light (all with Brandon Sanderson)
• Franz Kafka — The Trial, The Castle and Amerika as well as many short stories.
• Chaim Kaplan — Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
• Aryeh Klonicki — The Diary of Adam's Father
• Janusz Korczak — Ghetto Diary
• Sergei Kourdakov — The Persecutor, autobiography
• Herman Kruk — The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-1944
• Stieg Larsson — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
• Rutka Laskier — Rutka's Notebook
• Abraham Lewin — A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
• Ruthka Lieblich — A Ruthka: a Diary of War
• Huey Long — My First Days in the White House
• Robert Ludlum — The Janson Directive
• Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
• Kim Malthe-Bruun — Heroic Heart: The Diary and Letters of Kim Malthe-Bruun (titled Kim in Denmark)
• Manning Marable — Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
• Bruce Marshall — An Account of Capers
• Philip Mechanicus — Year of Fear: a Jewish Prisoner Waits for Auschwitz (also titled In Dépôt and Waiting for Death)
• Walter M. Miller, Jr. — Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (with Terry Bisson)
• Margaret Mitchell — Lost Laysen
• Jessica Mitford — The American Way of Death Revisited
• Vladimir Nabokov — The Original of Laura
• Irène Némirovsky — Suite française
• Eliot Ness — The Untouchables (with Oscar Fraley)
• Patrick O'Brian — The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
• Flann O'Brien — The Third Policeman
• Joe Orton — Head to Toe, Lord Cucumber, and The Boy Hairdresser (the latter two with Kenneth Halliwell)
• Wilfred Owen — almost all of his poems, the first edition being 24 Poems (1920)
• Robert B. Parker — Split Image
• Mervyn Peake — Titus Awakes
• Persius — Satires
• Pliny the Younger — Letters, Book Ten (to and from the Roman Emperor Trajan)
• Edgar Allan Poe — "The Light-House", "The Bells", "Annabel Lee", "Alone", "An Acrostic"
• Karel Poláček — There Were Five of Us (Czech: Bylo nás pět)
• Jan Potocki — The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
• Egon Redlich — The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich
• Oskar Rosenfeld — In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Lodz
• Dawid Rubinowicz — The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz
• Yitskhok Rudashevski — Diary of the Vilna Ghetto
• Carl Sagan — Billions and Billions
• Dr. Seuss — Daisy-Head Mayzie
• Yaakov Shabtai — Past Perfect ("Sof Davar")
• Philip Sidney — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Astrophel and Stella, An Apology for Poetry, The Lady of May
• Dawid Sierakowiak — The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
• Platt Rogers Spencer — Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship
• J.R.R. Tolkien — The Silmarillion (assembled by Christopher Tolkein), The Children of Húrin (published 35 years after his death; also assembled by Christopher Tolkein)
• Leo Tolstoy — The Living Corpse, Hadji Murat
• John Kennedy Toole — A Confederacy of Dunces, The Neon Bible
• Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger
• Jerzy Feliks Urman — I'm Not Even a Grownup: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman
• Jules Verne — The Lighthouse at the End of the World, Paris in the Twentieth Century
• Virgil — The Aeneid
• Kurt Vonnegut — Armageddon in Retrospect, Look at the Birdie
• David Foster Wallace — The Pale King (assembled by Michael Pietsch)
• Thomas Wolfe — The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, The Hounds of Darkness, The Hills Beyond (all assembled by Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell)
• Mary Wollstonecraft — Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (later chapters assembled by John Godwin)
• Virginia Woolf — Between the Acts
• John Wyndham — Web, Sleepers of Mars, The Best of John Wyndham, Wanderers of Time, Exiles on Asperus, No Place like Earth

Philosophy

• Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
• David Hume, his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion
• Edmund Husserl, his work Experience and Judgment, edited by Ludwig Landgrebe
• Martin Heidegger, his Contributions to Philosophy and Insight Into What Is
• G.W. Leibniz, his major work the Monadology
• Friedrich Nietzsche, his The Will to Power, put together and edited by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Heinrich Köselitz
• Baruch Spinoza, his major work Ethics
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, his Philosophical Investigations, edited and translated by G. E. M. Anscombe

Music

• Frédéric Chopin's opuses 66-74 contain 20+ posthumous works.
• "Beautiful Dreamer", published in 1864, shortly after the death of songwriter Stephen Foster; it was the last song he wrote before his death, and is widely acclaimed as one of his most celebrated works.
• The phonautograms of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville were not able to be played back, using digital technology, until long after his death in 1879.
• "Lonely" and "Weekend", two singles released after Eddie Cochran's death in a taxi accident in April 1960.
• Several of Patsy Cline's singles and albums were released after her death in a 1963 plane crash; most importantly the singles "Leavin' on Your Mind", "Sweet Dreams (Of You)", and "Faded Love" became hits, and the albums The Patsy Cline Story, A Portrait of Patsy Cline, That's How a Heartache Begins, and Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits were released.
• The single "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was released a month after the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding.
• "I'm Sorry" and "Seabreeze" by Frankie Lymon were released in 1969, a year after Frankie's untimely death due to accidental heroin overdose.
• Most of the extensive catalog of American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. In his lifetime, Hendrix only saw the release of three albums by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, a compilation by the same group, and a live album by the Band of Gypsys.
• Several of Jim Croce's singles and albums were released after his 1973 death in a plane crash.
• Various home recordings by Nick Drake have been released since his death in 1974 to satisfy growing interest in his work.
• Various live recordings and studio outtakes by Tim Buckley have been released following his death 1975 from an accidental overdose of both heroin and alcohol.
• 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.
• John Lennon's hit singles "Woman" and "Watching the Wheels" were released shortly after his murder. The album Milk and Honey, which includes the song "Nobody Told Me", came out two years later.
• Coda by Led Zeppelin was released two years after the death of John Bonham.
• Four albums by Carpenters have been released since the death of Karen Carpenter: Voice of the Heart, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, Lovelines and As Time Goes By. Her aborted solo album has also been released, simply titled Karen Carpenter.
• The Marvin Gaye albums Dream of a Lifetime (1985, Columbia), Romantically Yours (1985, Columbia) (the single "Sanctified Lady" became a modest international hit when it was released in 1985 reaching number two on the American R&B charts and number fifty-seven in the UK.) and Vulnerable (1997, Motown) (which was the aborted The Ballads album) were released after his death in 1984.
• My Place, a solo album by Australian guitarist Guy McDonough (Australian Crawl), was released in 1985 after his death.
• The live album Ballot Result by the punk band The Minutemen was released two years after the death of lead singer/guitarist D. Boon in a van accident.
• The song "To Live Is to Die" on heavy metal band Metallica's fourth studio album ...And Justice for All (1988) was written by Cliff Burton, the late bass player whose untimely death occurred in Sweden while he was on tour supporting Ozzy Osbourne in 1986.
• Divine died in 1988, followed by the release of The Best Of and the Rest Of (1989) (compilation), 12 Inch Collection (1993) (compilation), Born To Be Cheap (1995) (live), Shoot Your Shot (1995), The Originals and the Remixes (1996) (2-CD compilation), and The Best of Divine (1997) (compilation).
• Mystery Girl by Roy Orbison; it spawned a hit single in "You Got It".
• Apple, the sole album by grunge band Mother Love Bone was released days after lead singer Andrew Wood's death.
• De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas was released following the murder of Mayhem's guitarist, Euronymous.
• MTV Unplugged in New York, on November 1, 1994 after singer/songwriter/guitarist Kurt Cobain's death on April 5 of the same year; also From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, With the Lights Out and Sliver: The Best of the Box. There was also a single, "You Know You're Right", recorded on January 30, 1994 at Bob Lang Studios during Nirvana's final studio session; it was finally released on the band's compilation album, Nirvana, eight years after Cobain's death.
• Dreaming of You, the first English album by Selena.
• Queen album Made in Heaven was released four years after the death of frontman Freddie Mercury in 1991.
• Eazy-E's album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton was released months after his death.
• The Beatles' songs "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love", wherein the three surviving Beatles overdubbed onto home recordings by John Lennon.
• The self-titled album from California ska group Sublime was released after singer/songwriter/guitarist Bradley Nowell's 1996 heroin overdose death.
• The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, R U Still Down? (Remember Me), Still I Rise, Until the End of Time, Better Dayz, Tupac: Resurrection, Loyal to the Game, and Pac's Life were all released after Tupac Shakur's death on September 13, 1996.
• Eva by Heart (1997), Time After Time (2000), Imagine (2002), American Tune (2003), Somewhere (2008), and Simply Eva (2011), all after Eva Cassidy's death from melanoma in 1996.
• Mystery White Boy and Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk were released after the death of Jeff Buckley.
• The Notorious B.I.G.'s albums Life After Death, Born Again and Duets: The Final Chapter were released after his murder in 1997.
• Michael Hutchence, a self-titled album by INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, was released after his 1997 death of autoerotic asphyxiation.
• California session singer Warren Wiebe has been featured on various compilation albums following his suicide in 1998 as well as several demo recordings.
• Rapper Big L's album The Big Picture was released in 2000, a year after he was shot to death in his own neighborhood; the murder is still unsolved.
• Kevin Gilbert's concept album, The Shaming of the True, released in 2000, four years after his death from autoerotic asphyxiation.
• Aaliyah's music video for her song "Rock the Boat" was completed the morning of her death.
• Don't Worry About Me, the only solo album by Joey Ramone, was released a year after Joey's death in 2001.
• Brainwashed by George Harrison, completed by producer Jeff Lynne and son Dhani Harrison.
• Streetcore, the third and final album by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, was released a little less than a year after Strummer's death.
• The Shining, by J Dilla.
• From a Basement on the Hill and New Moon were released after Elliott Smith's death.
• Rebel Meets Rebel, a compilation of material from a Pantera side-project with David Allen Coe, was released over a year after guitarist Dimebag Darrell was murdered.
• Two albums, Katorz (2006) and Infini (2009), by thrash metal band Voivod were released after the death of lead guitarist Denis D'Amour in 2005.
• American V: A Hundred Highways and American VI: Ain't No Grave were both released after Johnny Cash's death.
• Korean singer U;Nee's last album, Habit, was released five days after her death in 2007.
• Gerald Levert's In My Songs was released after his death.
• Lisa Lopes's Eye Legacy was released after her death.
• Toše Proeski's album The Hardest Thing was released posthumously in 2009, two years after his death in a car accident.
• Michael Jackson's song "This Is It" was released after his death in 2009.
• Nightmare, the fifth album by metal band Avenged Sevenfold, was released on July 27, 2010, almost 7 months after the death of drummer The Rev on December 28, 2009.
• Michael, a collection of formerly unreleased tracks by Michael Jackson, was released on December 14, 2010.

Note: Records released after the split of a band are also sometimes referred as "posthumous", even if all members are still alive.

See also

• Unfinished work