The Masque of the Red Death

In episode 12, Alan & Nisha discuss another classic of gothic horror: Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death! They marvel at how well this story holds up even 180 years later, and even still has some notable parallels to our modern world.

For the film adaptations, they focus on the most well-known version put to film: the 1964 film of the same name, as well as the early 1919 silent film The Plague in Florence. The first film is one of many Poe adaptations directed by Roger Corman and starring the legendary Vincent Price, while the latter was notably an early writing credit for Fritz Lang!

With the most recent version of this tale being over 60 years old, how do these stories hold up? Why has Poe remained such a celebrated figure in writing? Join us as we discuss these and other topics!