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"Whoo! The dance of the living dead!"
Titles including the phrase "of the [Living] Dead". You can almost always expect zombies to be involved.
A Sub Trope of The X of Y. See also Tropes of The Living Dead.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Film - Live Action
- Castle of the Living Dead
- Children of the Living Dead
- The City of the Dead
- Dance of the Dead
- There's a documentary named Des Morts which also goes by the name Of the Dead.
- The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis is a fictional Sumerian spellbook in the Evil Dead series, and probably takes its name from the Necronomicon of H.P. Lovecraft stories.
- Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane
- Hell of the Living Dead (aka Virus)
- House of the Dead and its made-for-TV sequel.
- Isle of the Dead, though it dwells in the vampire mythos.
- Legion of the Dead
- Night of the Living Dead and its sequels.
- Nudist Colony of the Dead. Yes, really.
- Oasis of the Zombies (aka Grave of the Living Dead)
- Subtitle of Phantasm III is Lord of the Dead.
- Return of the Living Dead and its sequels.
- Siege of the Dead (also known as Rammbock in Germany)
- Severed: Forest of the Dead
- Shaun of the Dead
- Tombs of the Blind Dead
Literature
- The Book of the Dead, an ancient Egyptian funerary text.
- "Dance of the Dead", a short story by Richard Matheson.
- Dance of the Dead, a Ravenloft novel by Christie Golden.
- Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead, making this Older Than Feudalism.
- Eaters of the Dead, a novel by Michael Crichton, which was adapted into the film The 13th Warrior.
- The Naming of the Dead, a crime novel by Ian Rankin.
- The Necronomicon (Greek: "image of the law of the dead", sometimes translated "book of the names of the dead"), a fictional grimoire that appears in stories by H.P. Lovecraft.
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld parodies this with the Necrotelecomnicon, or "phonebook of the dead".
- Plague of the Dead, a novel by Z.A. Recht.
- There's the Enderverse book Speaker for the Dead.
- Fairly new is the mash-up A Christmas Carol of the Living Dead, which is just what you think it is: zombies vs. Scrooge (but done seriously).
- Twilight of the Dead
Live Action TV
- Doctor Who has the episodes "Forest of the Dead", which does kinda-sorta include zombies, and "Planet of the Dead", which doesn't at all.
- Secrets of the Dead, a historical documentary series on PBS.
Music
- "Clothes of the Dead," a song by Bongo Bass & Bob (aka Penn & Teller and Steven Banks).
- Horror Punk Rock band The Misfits have songs titled "Night of the Living Dead" and "Day of the Dead."
- Metal band Lordi has a song called "Night of the Loving Dead."
- Exciter song "Rising of the Dead".
- Rage album Speak of the Dead.
- Grave Digger song "Sorrow of the Dead".
- The Doom Metal band Mistress of the Dead.
- The Cirith Ungol album King of the Dead.
Real Life
- Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos), a Mexican holiday.
- Names of the Dead, a list published by the US Department of Defense following combat action.
Tabletop Games
Video Games
- Donald In Maui Mallard level "The Realm of the Dead".
- The House of the Dead series.
- Typing Of The Dead, a spin-off where words pop up, and if typed quickly, kill the approaching zombies.
- English Of The Dead, another spin-off.
- One area in the first Disgaea game is the Forest of the dead, home of zombies, pumpkins, and The first Defender of Earth's ghost.
- Land Of The Dead Road To Fiddlers Green, based on the Romero movie above.
- The cancelled George Romero's City of the Dead.
- The obscure action-adventure/early survival horror War of the Dead.
- Plants Vs Zombies was originally going to be called "Lawn of the Dead," but was changed for legal reasons.
Webcomics
Western Animation
- El Tigre has a villain, the Big Bad, whose full name is Sartana of the Dead. Her grandson is Django of the Dead.
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