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August 3, 2021 28 mins
In which Carla explores Poe’s plague, and its relationship to Shakespeare’s desert island.

Sources:
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781500497248
The story at the Poe Museum: https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death
The story with annotated vocabulary: https://poestories.com/read/masque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero
The Tempest by William Shakespeare https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780198325000
https://www.geni.com/people/Virginia-Poe/6000000008462677282

Adaptations of Poe’s work:
Music: Jason Mulligan’s Concert Drama: https://jasonmulligan.net/vocal-1/the-masque-of-the-red-death
Christopher Rouse’s Prospero’s Rooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero%27s_Rooms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/prosperos-rooms/1106607427?i=1106607860
Movies:
The Plague of Florence (1919) https://boxd.it/8Rcu
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Vincent Prince https://boxd.it/1w12
La maschera della morte rossa (1971) https://boxd.it/eM8O
The Masque of the Red Death (1989) Frank Stallone https://boxd.it/1l9uan

Referenced episodes:
1: Poe and Carla and Cupcakes: Nicetameetcha https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132350
10: Boo Without Goo: Scary Movies for the Squeamish https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132360
68: Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders: House of Leaves 1 https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43799576
70: Ergodic: House of Leaves 2 https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44973302

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission

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