Question: Two Fables is a collection of two short stories by a novelist that died in what year?

Context articles: Sharpe's Ransom
Mr. Harley Quin
Roald Dahl
The Rest of the Robots
Mai Al-Nakib
Two Fables
Blood and Smoke
Vacuum Diagrams
Animal Fairy Tales
James W. Hall

Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stories, "Sharpe's Christmas" and "Sharpe's Ransom", written by historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell.
 They feature Cornwell's fictional hero Richard Sharpe.
 Originally, the first short-story, "Sharpe's Christmas", was written for British newspaper "The Daily Mail" which serialised it during the Christmas season of 1995.
 Later, in an effort to raise funds for The Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation, an extended version was published by The Sharpe Appreciation Society in 2003 to add "Sharpe's Ransom" into a collection of the two short stories simply titled Sharpe's Christmas.
Harley Quin is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie and the most mysterious of all her detectives.
 His name is a word play on "Harlequin" which may be a clue to his personality.
 Mr. Quin helps his older friend Mr. Satterthwaite solve crimes using his extraordinary skills and instincts.
 He appears in the 12 short stories appearing in "The Mysterious Mr Quin", first published in 1930.
 in an additional two short stories "The Love Detectives" and "The Harlequin Tea Set" from "Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories".
 Mr. Quin's emissary Mr. Satterthwaite, who appears together with him in all the previously mentioned short stores, also appears without him in Christie's short story Dead Man's Mirror, and in her novel Three-Act Tragedy.
Roald Dahl ( , ] ; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.
 His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964.
 The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the "Robot" series, most of which take place in the "Foundation" universe.
 Another collection of short stories about robots, "I, Robot", was re-published in the previous year, which is why Asimov chose to title the collection as "The Rest of the Robots".
 None of the short stories in this collection were in "I, Robot", however all of them were later included in "The Complete Robot", and both novels about Elijah Baley were also published separately.
Mai Al-Nakib is author of "The Hidden Light of Objects", a collection of linked short stories published by Bloomsbury in 2014.
 The collection won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's 2014 First Book Award, the first collection of short stories to win.
 Her short stories have appeared in "Ninth Letter""," "The First Line", and the anthology "Novel of the World""."
 Two of her stories received honorable mention in "Glimmer Train" competitions.
 "The Hidden Light of Objects" is her first collection of short stories.
Two Fables is a collection of two short stories by Roald Dahl, first published in 1986 by Penguin in London and Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in the USA.
Blood and Smoke (1999) is an audiobook in which Stephen King reads three of his own short stories.
 At the time, King said that the two short stories which had not been published wouldn't be, but all three appeared in the "Everything's Eventual" collection.
Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Stephen Baxter.
 The collection connects the novels of the Xeelee Sequence and also shows the history of mankind in the Xeelee universe, and ultimately the universe.
 While each short story in the collection is self-contained, the stories are presented as being contained in the context of the first story, "Eve", about a man (seemingly Jack Raoul from the portion of the timeline concerned with the silver ghosts) who is forced to witness the events in the short stories by a god-like being.
 "Eve" acts as a structure for the short stories, with an introduction at the beginning of "Vacuum Diagrams", short scenes occurring between each "era" (with "Eve" character explaining and introducing the next section), and an ending that wraps up the plot for the "Eve" story itself.
 "Vacuum Diagrams" won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1999.
Animal Fairy Tales is a collection of short stories written by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Land of Oz series of children's books.
 The stories (animal tales, comparable to Aesop's Fables or the "Just-So Stories" and "Jungle Book" of Rudyard Kipling) first received magazine publication in 1905.
 For several decades in the twentieth century, the collection was a "lost" book by Baum; it resurfaced when the International Wizard of Oz Club published the stories in one volume in 1969.
James W. Hall (born 1947) is an American author and professor from Florida.
 He has written eighteen novels, four books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a collection of essays.
 His novels include "Under Cover of Daylight", "Hard Aground", "Gone Wild", "Buzz Cut", "Red Sky at Night", "Rough Draft", "Off the Chart" and "Silencer".
 His writing includes the collection of personal essays "Hot Damn", written for the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel's Sunshine Magazine, Washington Post and Miami Herald.
 His book "Hit Lit" is about common features of the twelve most commercially successful novels of the last hundred years.
 His two short story collections are "Paper Products" and "Over Exposure".
 "Over Exposure" includes the short story "The Carch", winner of an Edgar Award.
 He also won a John D. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Florida Fiction, presented by the JDM Bibliophile.