The Saturday Night Live writers who invented David S. Pumpkins and his dancing skeletons were tapping into an image with a very long history: the Danse Macabre, a medieval allegory about the inevitability of death. Click here to read the rest of the article at Atlas Obscura.
Loved this article. It seems to fit in with today’s trends. We’ve had floods, fires, carnage and destruction– can a plague be far off? I want dancing skeletons.