Vincent Price and Jane Asher

The Masque of the Red Death (1964) // dir. Roger Corman

The Phantom of the Opera - art by Annie Stegg Gerard

Art by churieq.

This looks like a good choice to read out loud by the light of a single candle at midnight (Ned Dameron, A Guide to Gothic Earth in TSR’s 1994 AD&D campaign expansion boxed set Ravenloft: Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales)

Happy Halloween from the Masque of the Red Death! 🩸🎃💀

bonus: masque of the red gamer

Masquerade! Paper faces on parade Masquerade! Hide your face, so the world will never find you

Vincent Price visiting Edgar Allan Poe's grave in 1977.

Bugsnax this, Radiance that, just IMAGINE the showdown that would have been Masque of the Red Death v SCP-049: The Plague Doctor; UNSTOPPABLE FORCE VS IMMOVABLE OBJECT

Context below the cut, I know the tag list is weird but I promise below the cut will make it make sense

30 Days of Horror, Day 23- a great quote from a horror movie

Masque of the Red Death (1964)

"Satan does not rule alone, and your pact with him will not save you."

Bernie Wrightson - Masque of the Red Death, 1976

From The Edgar Allan Poe Portfolio.

Vincent Price as Prince Prospero

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)//dir. Roger Corman

(SPOILERS for The Fall of the House of Usher)

My one minor critique about the Fall of the House of Usher is really just a big pet peeve of mine that I've seen in other stories: the entire narrative is Roderick confessing to Auggie about everything that has happened, going through all sorts of crimes and how each person has died, But then after everything, Auggie just decides not to do anything with the recording??? We went through this huge story and the answers to so many issues die with the Ushers?

Not taking it to evidence to exhume Griswold, not closing other various cold cases that the confessions may have solved, not sharing it to the world to give everyone else effected by the Ushers a sense of justice, not giving any of the spouses or significant others connected to the family a sense of closure of what the hell happened, and most importantly and ....most heinously... not telling Morrie about why her innocent hero of a daughter is dead.

I get the intended conclusion is that Auggie is finally at peace and saw justice served, but isn't the story a lot bigger than just him? At the very least, I like to think he told Morrie, Jules, and Bill off screen. What's the point of recording the story if it's not going to go anywhere? Like he couldn't in good conscience just leave a dead body buried underneath Fortunato? They could've just had Auggie accidentally leave the recording in the house when it got destroyed or like to see if before he made it out and made the split decision to leave it - giving at least some sort of dramatic satisfaction to his choice.

Maybe I'm missing something, lemme know if anyone has any other thoughts.

I am super lucky to have gotten to se Phantom when I was a kid. My folks took us to see it in Chicago. It was a formative experience. I drew this version of the Masque of the Red Death way back in 2009.

Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

does anyone else find it weird how prospero is kinda like a doctor(plague doctor specter), but is also shown to have a fear of medical stuff? idk, maybe he was a doctor but died in a hospital, or of sickness, or maybe has a plague doctor BECAUSE he died of a sickness (see: Masque of Red Death) and was never a doctor?

edit: more, spoilers for the Ada arc (not mentioning why its ada that would spoil it). TW for mentions of guns (annabel lee)

so maybe he turned into the thing he died from? idk prob not cuz then annabel lees specter would be a gun. though that would make a bit more sense if you look at the story hes based on. i guess it would kinda work? theory time! what if the specters were there greatest fears? but not directly, like miss poppets explanation of cryptids, how ppl wanted to escape society. but plutos specter is a domesticated cat. and we saw annabels greatest fear, but im kinda confused on that one. if we go with the theory that lenore shot her, she would be afraid of being betrayed. if she was shot shortly after lenore, she would be seeing her beloved die. but her fear was going insane (i think?) and i think i would go crazy if the love of my life was killed infront of me. this is kinda just me rambling but whatever. ill prob edit this paragraph when i go back and read the chapter abt adas spectre.