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I can't remember the last time radio has caught my attention in such a fashion. I am going to buy several of these to play for my daughter when she gets older. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. But more beautiful -- and macabre -- than most is "Masque of the Red Death," a short story crammed with symbolism, beauty, and the horror of a disease that no gates can keep outside. A horrible plague called the Red Death due to the bleeding from pores is sweeping a country, killing half of the country's inhabitants in a brief time.
Prince Prospero, thinking that the "external world could take care of itself," seals himself and a thousand of his closest friends inside a secluded abbey and prepares a lavish, luxurious party. Five or six months pass, and still the prince and his pals enjoy the wild, strange parties he throws. But as a clock strikes midnight, a strange figure appears -- a blood-soaked mummer disguised as the Red Death.
The enraged prince orders for him to be seized and unmashed It's a simple story, and when Prince Prospero orders the doors to be sealed so they can't possibly catch the Red Death, you just know exactly what is going to happen. It's Poe's presentation that really makes the story come alive -- his lack of drama, and his sensually creepy prose.
And he takes time out of the plot to paint a beautiful, bizarre setting -- gilded, jagged, vividly colourful, with stained windows and flaming braziers, but no lights. Poe's writing is at its most exquisitely poetic here "But the echoes of the chime die away I'd seen the movie with Vincent Price and wondered about the book version.
Regardless of how much the Prince and his guests try to avoid thinking of death, it is impossible on account of the ebony clock not exactly sure why the Prince got that clock to begin with. The last room, the one in which no one dares to go, symbolizes death. It is all black. It has blood red windows. It contains an ebony clock. It is at the far western end of the hall think sunset. It is the 7th room think end of the week. As the clock strikes midnight, a heretofore unseen guest makes his way through the party-goers.
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