Danse Macabre (disambiguation)  

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Danse Macabre or Dance of Death refers to the late-medieval allegory of the universality of death; it may refer to:

Danse Macabre:

• Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns), the musical composition by Camille Saint-Saëns
• Danse Macabre (book), a nonfiction book by Stephen King
• Danse Macabre (novel), a 2006 novel by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Danse Macabre (album), an album by The Faint
• La Grande Danse Macabre, an album by Marduk

Danse Macabre, an episode of the crime drama Jonathan Creek starring Peter Davison and Meg Davies.

Dance of Death:

• The Dance of Death (play), a 1900 play in two parts by August Strindberg
• The Dance of Death (Wedekind), a 1908 play by Frank Wedekind
• The Dance of Death (Auden), a 1933 play by W. H. Auden
• Dance of Death (album), an Iron Maiden album and a song from that album
• Dance of Death (film), a movie starring Laurence Olivier
• Dance of Death (novel), a suspense novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Dance of the Dead:

• "Dance of the Dead (story)", a short story by Richard Matheson, adapted into an episode of the Masters of Horror TV series
• "Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror episode)", a Masters of Horror episode
• "Dance of the Dead (The Prisoner)", an episode of "The Prisoner" TV series
• The Dance of the Dead, an audio play in the Bernice Summerfield series
• Dance of the Dead (Ravenloft novel), a novel taking place in the Ravenloft fictional universe
• Dance of the Dead (2008 film) is an American independent horror film

Other:

• Totentanz (Liszt), the musical composition by Franz Liszt
• Danza macabra, a movie starring Barbara Steele

See also:

• Macabre (disambiguation)