Bedtime Stories with Jenn O Cide: Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Channel: Jenn O. Cide
Date: 2020-06-01

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Chapters:
00:13 - Introduction
00:44 - The Masque of the Red Death
17:37 - Sweet Dreams

Narrated by Jenn O. Cide
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Jenn O. Cide reads her favorite horror and science fiction stories to help you sleep. Let her lull you to sleep with an original soundtrack and a luxurious voice as we delve into one of the all-time horror classics, especially relevant now, with its themes of pestilence, class inequality, and in the inevitability of death. This is a rendition of "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, a story about a pestilence, class inequality, and the inevitability of death: poignant in this time of strife. Narrated with an original soundtrack, let Jenn's melodious voice help you drift off into a deep, dreamless slumber. "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

"The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball in seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn.

Poe's story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the eponymous disease. The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham's Magazine and has since been adapted in many different forms, including a 1964 film starring Vincent Price."  From Wikipedia