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Episode Thirteen: Red Death (Part One)

After an explanation of why Celebrate Poe is abandoning its chronological format (for only a week or two) this episode delves into what many scholars believe is Poe’s most horrifying story - The Masque of the Red Death - a story that is especially relevant today.

We discuss various possible sources for the story - medieval, Shakespeare, and Nathaniel P. Willis’s report about a cholera party in Paris.  And we point out the pestilence in the story is not specifically identified - making the story more universal.  Mr. Poe begins the story of the Red Death and the ruler in the story who does not care about his people’s deaths during a pandemic - Donald Trump  
(I mean Prince Prospero)
 

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