The Masque of the Red Death
Short story by Edgar Allan PoeWikipedia
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Oct 31, 2026
Herman LoweGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Herman LoweGUEST
The Raven and the Mask of the Red Death and stuff.
Herman LoweGUEST
So I had this whole heap of price.
Herman LoweGUEST
Not everything was easy to find, you know, back then in the 80s.
RobHOST
unique game oh very it's not like something you just play just to play it's something you have to have like atmospheres Oh, yeah.
Anna MarieHOST
And that is Mask of the Red Death.
Anna MarieHOST
So we have mentioned it before, but that's another one.
Anna MarieHOST
If you get the chance to play this or like search it out, it is fantastic.
RobHOST
Poe's poem of the same
Anna MarieHOST
name.
Anna MarieHOST
And Mask of the Red Death.
Anna MarieHOST
And it's so, so, so good.
ChrisHOST
The film was announced on February 1959, and it was dubbed the company's, quote, "...most ambitious film to date." A number of other companies announced projects around this time.
ChrisHOST
Alex Gordon had a version of The Mask of Red Death.
ChrisHOST
Fox had Murders in the Rue Morgue.
ChrisHOST
And Ben Burgess, The Gold Bug, and Universal, The Raven.
Aaron BoshHOST
Like you ever read the, oh gosh, I remember the Edgar Allen Poe.
Aaron BoshHOST
The Masquerade of the Red Death.
Aaron BoshHOST
The Masquerade of the Red Death.
Aaron BoshHOST
It was kind of like that.
Aaron BoshHOST
That is
Doug LeafHOST
It is time for our yearly bonus Halloween reading.
Doug LeafHOST
And so just to give you guys some ideas, if you haven't joined us for one of these in years past, we've done The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Color Out of Space by...
Doug LeafHOST
By H.P. Lovecraft.
Doug LeafHOST
And this year I wanted to do yet a different tale from the public domain.
E.G. MarshallNARRATOR
it.
E.G. MarshallNARRATOR
Our mystery drama, The Mask of the Red Death, was especially adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe classic by George Lothar and stars Carl Swenson and Stats Cotsworth.
E.G. MarshallNARRATOR
It is sponsored in part by Sinoff, the sinus medicines, and Anheuser-Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser.
E.G. MarshallNARRATOR
I'll be back shortly with Act One.
Jane IfradyGUEST
And, you know, I'm of an age when it was impossible to get through high school without reading all of the short story and the poems from The Raven to The Telltale Heart and many, many others.
Jane IfradyGUEST
My personal favorites were The Cask of Amontillado and The Mask of the Red Death.
Jane IfradyGUEST
Classic, classic Poe.
Jane IfradyGUEST
So I was really thrilled to discover a recent publication just this year by academic Emily Ogden, who has done a it's not quite a biography.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
Right through the book, allusions to Edgar Allan Poe.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
So the epigraph is from The Mask of the Red Death, which is the short story published in 1842, probably the most famous story Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
The motif of this kind of sinister masked ball runs right through the book.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
Lines from Edgar Allan Poe's short story keep kind of bobbing to the surface in this way, which we'll talk about in the second half.
31 MINS LATER
Dominic SandbrookHOST
And there are more and more.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
I mean, there's a bit where he turns the page and he gets an invitation to a mass ball from 1945.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
And at that point, he imagines himself the mask of the Red Death, the Edgar Allan Poe story.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
And then the owner of the hotel shouting, unmask, unmask, and everybody taking their masks off.
Kevin QuigleyHOST
I think this is a vaudevillian play, and it's like a love story, but there's a skeleton in the window looking through, and then he comes through and he chases after.
Kevin QuigleyHOST
It's like The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.
Kevin QuigleyHOST
It's sort of like that.
Kevin QuigleyHOST
One of my favorite stories of all time.
speaker_0HOST
Today we unseal a chronicle of the ultimate quarantine, a file that asks what happens when the elite attempt to buy their way out of mortality.
speaker_0HOST
When a deadly pandemic sweeps through the land, do the powerful open their doors to help, or do they weld the iron gates shut and throw a masquerade? We are investigating The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.
speaker_0HOST
It is the story of a prince who believed he could build a bunker strong enough to keep out death itself, but he forgot one chilling detail.
speaker_0HOST
You cannot barricade the door against a monster that is already in your blood.
speaker_0HOST
The music is playing and the clock is about to strike midnight.
speaker_0HOST
Let's open the file.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Red Death had long devastated the country.
speaker_1NARRATOR
No pestilence had ever been so fatal or so hideous.
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