"Whoo! The dance of the living dead!"
— Al Czervik, Caddyshack
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 and The Joy of X. See also Tropes of the Living Dead and Episode of the Dead.
Compare with Doomy Dooms of Doom.
Examples of the Dead:
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Anime & Manga of the Dead
- Detective School Q's Episode 22 is called "Dinner of the Dead". It has Class Q investigating the murder of a famous chef.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers had a two-part storyline in the manga called "Hetalia of the Dead" which was later animated in Season 5.
- High School Of The Dead: episode titles follow this trope.
- The second season of Is This A Zombie? is Is This a Zombie: OF THE DEAD.
- Every chapter of Living Dead! is titled "...Of the Dead".
- Lupin III: The Italian Adventure has an episode titled "Venice of the Dead", which is about zombies that turn out to be special effects for the horror movie of the same name.
- My Hero Academia's second OVA is an Episode of the Dead titled Training of the Dead.
- Episode 8 Part 1 of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is actually called "...Of the Dead". Yes, really.
- Soul Eater Not!! 's Chapter 16 is called "NOT of the Dead." They probably didn't mean it like that.
- Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead: The localized title includes "Of The Dead" at the end. Every chapter in the manga and every episode of the anime is titled "[X] of the Dead". This even extends to the anime's opening and ending themes, titled "Song of the Dead" and "Happiness of the Dead", respectively.
Fan Works of the Dead
Films — Animated of the Dead
Films — Live-Action of the Dead
- Anger of the Dead
- Army of the Dead
- Bed of the Dead, about... what else? A killer bed.
- Candyman: Day of the Dead
- The Castle of the Living Dead
- Cave of the Living Dead
- Children of the Living Dead
- City of the Dead''
- Dance of the Dead
- Dawning of the Dead
- The Dead
- There's a documentary named Des Morts which also goes by the name Of the Dead.
- Detention 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.
- Fangs of the Living Dead
- 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, House of the Dead II: Dead Aim.
- Isle of the Dead, though it dwells in the vampire mythos.
- Juan de los Muertos AKA Juan of the Dead, a zombie film made in Cuba
- Legion of the Dead
- Living Dead Series:
- Nudist Colony of the Dead. Yes, really.
- Oasis of the Zombies (aka Grave of the Living Dead)
- One Cut of the Dead, a meta-fictional Japanese comedy about the making of a zombie movie where the actors are being attacked by real zombies.
- Used as a subtitle in Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead.
- The 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
- Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D. Best part: It's a comedy redub of Night of the Living Dead (1968).
- War of the Dead
- Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
- Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead (I shit you not... so to speak)
- Zone of the Dead, also known as Apocalypse of the Dead
Literature of the Dead
- The Book of the Dead, an ancient Egyptian funerary text.
- 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).
- "Dance of the Dead", a short story by Richard Matheson.
- Dance of the Dead, a Ravenloft novel by Christie Golden.
- Dance Hall of the Dead, a Joe Leaphorn mystery by Tony Hillerman
- Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead, making this Older Than Feudalism.
- Plus the Dalziel and Pascoe novel of the same name.
- Eaters of the Dead, a novel by Michael Crichton, which was adapted into the film The 13th Warrior.
- Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead. The zombies don't show up until late, but it does take place on Necropolis.
- Isle of the Dead, the third book in the Deltora Quest 3 series.
- ''Junior High Of The Dead' a tragedy/drama novella by Todd Dawson-Cooper.
- 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.
- Speaker for the Dead.
- Twilight of the Dead
Live-Action TV of the Dead
- Bar Rescue: Season 04, Episode 22, is titled "Jon Of The Dead".
- Degrassi did a zombie-themed Halloween Episode titled "Degrassi of the Dead".
- 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.
- The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House: Invoked. Horror fan Momoko puts together a Romero-inspired performance with the geiko and maiko of the house, and titles it Maiko of the Living Dead.
- The Masters of Horror anthology contains the episode "Dance of the Dead" directed by Tobe Hooper, in which, yes, The Dead Can Dance.
- Murdoch Mysteries: One episode is titled "Murdoch of the Living Dead".
- Psych: The season two finale is "Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead," where they investigate a mummy that's seemingly walked out of its sarcophagus of its own volition.
- Secrets of the Dead, a historical documentary series on PBS.
- The Walking Dead and its spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead.
Music of the Dead
- "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.
- "City Of The Dead" by The Clash.
- Emmure album Speaker of the Dead.
Radio of the Dead
- The syndicated '40s mystery/horror program Adventures by Morse had the serialized multi-episode stories "City of the Dead" and "Land of the Living Dead".
Tabletop Games of the Dead
- The Magic: The Gathering cards Dance of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Dreams of the Dead, Drift of the Dead, Driver of the Dead, Eater of the Dead, Endless Ranks of the Dead, Erebos, God of the Dead, Grimoire of the Dead, Kami of the Honored Dead, Keeper of the Dead, Lake of the Dead, Lord of the Undead, and Secrets of the Dead.
Video Games of the Dead
- Blood has a secret level "Mall of the Dead". Naturally, quite a lot of zombies on this level (like everywhere else in this game).
- One area in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is the Forest of the Dead, home of zombies, pumpkins, and The first Defender of Earth's ghost.
- Donald in Maui Mallard level "The Realm of the Dead". With such a title it doesn't leave much to the imagination and yet it still fails to prepare the players for the infernal horrors that they're in for.
- 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.
- As well as The Pinball of the Dead, which is a Pinball Spin-Off of the series.
- Parodied by Sega themselves on April Fools Day 2012 — releasing a trailer for SEGA Bass Fishing...OF THE DEAD.
- The Guided Fate Paradox: The second chapter of the game is called "Lord of the Dead", and it takes place in a graveyard where a weak zombie prays to God (the main character) to become stronger. It's also discussed In the same chapter, where Renya tells his angel companion Lilliel that putting "...of the Dead" at the end of any movie title instantly turns any setting into a Zombie Apocalypse.
- Isle of the Dead, an obscure FPS.
- Beating Lakeview Cabin Collection: Part III will unlock an Endless Mode titled "Lake of the Dead".
- Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green, based on the Romero movie above.
- The cancelled George Romero's City of the Dead.
- Road of the Dead
- Plants vs. Zombies was originally going to be called "Lawn of the Dead," but was changed for legal reasons.
- Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Night of the Raving Dead
- The obscure action-adventure/early survival horror War of the Dead.
Web Comics of the Dead
- City Of The Dead
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Chapter 45: 'The Realm of the Dead', which deals with ghosts.
Web Videos of the Dead
- Stampy's Lovely World has the short film within a show Block of the Dead.
Western Animation of the Dead
- Bump in the Night had "Night of the living Bread".
- El Tigre has a villain, the Big Bad, whose full name is Sartana of the Dead. Her grandson is Django of the Dead.
Real Life of the Dead
- 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.
