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Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death
In the horror film The Masque of the Red Death (1964), directed by Roger Corman and based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic allegorical short story, actor Vincent Price plays Prince Prospero.
The Masque of the Red Death
short story by Poe
The Masque of the Red Death, allegorical short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham’s Magazine in April 1842.
In a medieval land ravaged by the Red Death, a plague that causes swift, agonizing death, Prince Prospero retreats to his castle with 1,000 knights and ladies. There he welds the doors and windows shut, confident that he and his guests will escape death. Prospero gives a masquerade ball. At midnight, the grotesquely costumed courtiers find a fearful figure among them, costumed in shrouds and dried blood as the Red Death, which it proves in reality to be.