Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher"
Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw
Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying
Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens
Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved
Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America
Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead
Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God
Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones
Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body
When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".