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The Masque of the Red Death
October 26th, 2024 | 25 mins 15 secs
death, disease, edgar allen poe, halloween, horror, literature, masquerade, phantom, phantom of the opera, poe, short stories, short story
It's a bonus episode on top of a bonus episode! We're doing another Halloween reading, this time we're commemorating the Phantom of the Opera's favorite costume by revisiting Edgar Allen Poe's immortal classic, The Masque of the Red Death. The short story features Poe's gloomy mysterious prose, and strikes at our shared anxieties about pestilence and mortality.