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Dance of the Dead

Richard Matheson

First published January 1955
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In the near future, thrill-seeking students attend a club where the jaded patrons are entertained by reanimated dead.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1955 Cover Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 Ballantine Books Anthology
January 1955 Cover Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 Ballantine Books Anthology 114
October 1960 Cover Star of Stars Doubleday Anthology 184
1961 Cover Fiction Spécial No 3: 17 Récits d'anticipation passionnants OPTA Anthology 169
January 1961 Cover Star of Stars Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 184
June 1961 Cover Shock! Dell Collection 104
June 1961 Cover Shock! Dell Collection 104
November 1961 Cover Shock! Dell Collection 104
1962 Cover Shock! Corgi Collection 87
December 1962 Cover Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 Ballantine Books Anthology 114
1964 Cover Star of Stars Ballantine Books Anthology 172
1964 Cover Star of Stars Ballantine Books Anthology 172
1964 Historias de ciencia ficción Vértice Anthology 141
1966 Cover Star Fourteen Whiting & Wheaton Anthology 184
July 1966 Cover Dodici mondi Edizioni dello Scorpione Anthology 143
September 1966 Cover Shock! Dell Collection 104
1968 Cover Star Fourteen Pan Books Anthology 181
November 1972 Cover Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 Ballantine Books Anthology 114
November 1972 Cover Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 Ballantine Books Anthology 114
March 1974 Cover Les mondes macabres de Richard Matheson Casterman Collection 161
1978 Cover Shock! Sphere Collection 102
1978 Cover Les mondes macabres Le Livre de Poche Collection 179
May 1979 Cover Shock I: Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify Berkley Books Collection 111
October 1983 Cover Histoires de survivants Le Livre de Poche Anthology 64
1984 Cover Totentanz Bastei Lübbe Anthology |7
July 1984 Cover Shock 1 Mondadori Collection 127
August 1986 Cover Masters of Darkness Tor Anthology 93
August 1986 Masters of Darkness Tor Anthology
September 1989 Cover Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Dream/Press Collection 483
September 1989 Cover Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Dream/Press Collection 483
September 1989 Cover Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Dream/Press Collection 483
1993 Cover Фата-Моргана 8 Флокс Anthology 192
July 1995 Cover I Am Legend Tor Collection 193
October 1997 Cover I Am Legend Orb Collection 203
March 2000 Cover La poupée à tout faire Flammarion Collection 187
October 2000 Cover Shock prima parte Mondadori Collection 116
January 2002 Cover Nightmare at 20,000 Feet Tor Collection 207
January 2002 Cover Nightmare at 20,000 Feet Tor Collection 207
October 2003 Cover Nouvelles: Tome II - 1953-1959 J'ai Lu Collection 269
March 2005 Don't Turn Out the Light PS Publishing Anthology
March 2005 Cover Don't Turn Out the Light PS Publishing Anthology 264
April 2005 Cover Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume Two Edge Books Collection 249
September 2006 Cover I Am Legend / Hell House Quality Paperback Book Club Omnibus 203
November 2007 Cover I Am Legend Tor Collection 193
November 2007 Cover I Am Legend Tor Collection 203
2011 Cover I Am Legend Tor Collection 193
October 2017 Cover The Best of Richard Matheson Penguin Books (US) Collection 104
October 2017 Cover The Best of Richard Matheson Penguin Books Collection
November 2019 Cover I Am Legend Tor Collection 279
July 2025 Cover Albtraum über den Wolken Festa Collection 193