Imagine if I took one of those fancy "collected works of Edgar Allan Poe" giant brick books and tossed it into a blender along with the vibes of Van Helsing (2004 movie), and the weirdness of my own brain. That's BTGW. It is not a retelling of any particular Poe story, though you will likely see the most elements pulled from Masque of the Red Death. I also want to say that I did pull from more obscure Poe works, so you may not recognize some of the references, and you may find that some of the references you were hoping for from more popular works are not present. At the end of the day, this is a unique story that has elements from Poe stories that I pulled in to make myself smile. I'm a Poe nerd, so this was a fun project for myself, and not an intent to make it an easily recognizable thing, like the Fall of the House of Usher TV series for example.