Hello, my dark darlings. I'm Marquia, and this is the Something Scary podcast. To our veteran listeners and those sheltering into the dark with us for the first time, welcome.

You know, it's important to know where things come from, whether it's an old locket that beckons for you to open it, an entity that whispers to you in your

dreams, or the inspirational origins of your favorite scary stories. If we're to know how to

proceed forward, we must know the shaky steps it took to get where we are now. These are tales

of classic terrors. First, our modern reimagining of Edgar Allen

pose the mask of the red death. Next, an art collection displays deadly secrets. After that,

a home housing a negative being within it.

And finally, a homebound man spirals into madness, and Edgar Allan Pose, The Raven.

I receive hundreds of creepy story submissions every single week.

As always, the first story you hear is one that we've chosen to animate and post over at youtube.com slash

snarl.

Then I read a few more stories for the podcast.

If you have a tale you're dying to share, send me an email at something scary at snarl.com.

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Patreon.

Our patrons play a huge role in keeping the show running every single week.

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So, want to hear something scary? The Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer and poet, known for his tales of mystery that embraced the macab.

Some called him eccentric, Moore called him mad.

This is a modern retelling of Poe's The Mask of the Red Death. Poe originally

opens his story with this. The Red Death had long devastated the country. Blood was his avatar

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