The Dance of Death
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The Dance of Death (1877) is a satirical book published by Ambrose Bierce as William Herman.
The book was written by William Rulofson's son-in-law Thomas A. Harcourt and Ambrose Bierce and released under the pseudonym "William Herman" and describes the "intolerable nastiness" of the waltz. A man engaged in the dance is described: "his eyes, gleaming with a fierce intolerable lust, gloat satyr-like over [his partner]." Bierce later said, "Rulofson ... suggested the scheme and supplied the sinews of sin." Rulofson himself said of the book, "I have shown society what a loathsome ulcer festers in its midst."
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