Danse Macabre
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Sep 24, 2026
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
It's from about 50 years later.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
It's this form of picture that was popular at the time called the Dance Macabre.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
You have pictures of people in everyday life, and then you have death kind of dancing through, I guess, to remind you that everybody's going to die.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
Maybe they're taking away these people to death.
Fred GreenhalghGUEST
So then the second part, I guess I'll riff off of, you know, our patron saint of horror, Stephen King.
Fred GreenhalghGUEST
In his book, Dance Macabre has a really one of my favorite.
Fred GreenhalghGUEST
I mean, it's a great book about horror in general, but he's a chapter about radio drama in it.
Fred GreenhalghGUEST
And he has and I'm going to kind of paraphrase it.
Tyler KamstraHOST
God.
Tyler KamstraHOST
Guys, there's finally a youth for Dance Macabre.
Ash EliHOST
That book came
Tyler KamstraHOST
out in Xanathar.
Cory SchneiderHOST
he couldn't be.
Andrew FordHOST
He doesn't mention it in Dance Macabre, which is where he does talk about all the things that have influenced him.
Andrew FordHOST
And that came out in 1980.
Andrew FordHOST
He might have mentioned it and I forgot, but I don't know how big of a movie it was for audiences, like how many people actually were aware of it.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
And the reason she taught it to us was because it was a spelling lesson.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
So it used the melody to dance macabre to teach kids to spell Halloween.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
So it goes H-A-L-L-O-W-E-N spells Halloween.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
And I still hear that song in my head literally every time I go to spell Halloween.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
And it's just a...
Meghan CunninghamHOST
It was also a wonderful introduction to classical music.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
I suppose I wouldn't have had any other reason to know what Dance Macabre was.
Meghan CunninghamHOST
If somebody had said, here, listen to this piece of fantastic classical music, I would have been yawn.
JBGUEST
Stephen King talks about it.
JBGUEST
in Dance Macabre, where he goes in for a love potion.
JBGUEST
Love to
Adam RiskeGUEST
death?
Patrick BromleyHOST
Okay.
Patrick BromleyHOST
They're similar in terms of – I wonder
JBGUEST
if that's the one King is talking about because now I'm not sure if it would – he has a long section on EC Comics and Dance Macabre, but it might be in the section on short stories.
Adam RiskeGUEST
Well, also the Leah Thompson one is kind of similar to that, where it's going to cost you like $50,000 to get the mold of your face back or whatever.
TreyHOST
yes.
TreyHOST
So this piece is the Totentanz, which is the Dance of Death, and harkens back to our second piece.
TreyHOST
This is a set of variations on the Dies Irae theme.
TreyHOST
so all of the bits are based on the d d d d and then just you know developing and developing it so it's very much a musical practice it's or sorry a musical um game to some degree i mean theme and variations is usually a challenge to how many different ways can you take a basic theme and and play it differently to give it different colors and different emotional weights.
Matthew KeeleyHOST
It's time for the arrivals pretty quickly.
Matthew KeeleyHOST
We have Danse Macabre.
Matthew KeeleyHOST
Should I say it like that in French? Leading us in.
Matthew KeeleyHOST
That beautiful piece of music.
Isla TraquairHOST
Sam creates chaos, drama, confusion.
Isla TraquairHOST
Lines are blurred, boundaries pushed, and people in his sphere cross lines they thought they'd never cross, so they take responsibility, blame, and shame for their part in the Danse Macabre, but the opportunistic puppet master is the only one pulling the strings.
Isla TraquairHOST
In the next episode of The Narcissist's Playbook, Sam breaks down and cries on camera.
Sam VakninSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm very angry at not having ever, ever existed, because I think I had many gifts.