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Pictured below: Death incarnate. With its colour-themed chambers and decadent medieval suzerain Prince Prospero, who hubristically defies the pestilence that has bloodied and half-depopulated his country by hosting a debauched masqued ball in his impenetrable castellated abbey, the seven-page tale proved the ideal medium for the lush Pop Gothic aesthetic the American director Roger Corman brought to his series of low-budget Poe adaptations. All except one starred Vincent Price at his most mellifluously macabre — or tormented in the case of the first entry, House of Usher. Corman enlisted another writer, Robert Wright Campbell, to flesh out the thin story. These moral peculiarities are mercifully balanced by the retribution the dwarf Hop-Toad as Hop-Frog was renamed and played by little person Skip Martin exacts from a sly courtier Patrick Magee for lusting after his dancer companion Esmeralda — an adult dwarf played by child actor Verina Greenlaw and troublingly dubbed by a woman — and for throwing wine in her face. The shots that track beside Prospero — Price at his most suavely degenerate — as he pontificates about the lure of evil before his captive audience of doomed nobles lyricise his insanity. Censors demanded the cutting of then-frightening images from The Masque of the Red Death before its original release. View previous newsletters. Skip to main content. Search form Search. The Masque Of The Red Death.
Railroads, firearms, electric power, and other wondrous inventions spread across the globe, while magic is a lost secret, tainted forever by an ancient evil. Thousands of ago, an alien force invaded Gothic Earth: the Red Death.
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It manipulates and corrupts humankind, while its minions—vampires, werewolves, doppelgangers, and worse—thrive in the shadows. A few brave The Masque Of The Red Death risk their lives against the darkness… Will you be one of them? Hyde and Count Dracula himself. The text has been edited by R P Davis, and proofread by other prominent DMsGuild creators, and the rules were the subject of a massive playtest by DMs and players all over the world.
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Jane Asher, actor
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