The Masque of the Red Death and A Memento Mori Halloween, Part 2

The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, History

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A telling of 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe, as well as the conclusion of A Memento Mori Halloween is in this episode. European witch trials, Macbeth, Irish and Scottish traditions, the evolution of Samhain and Halloween, and the Dance of Death is all a part of this fascinating and spooky story.

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1:07.0	The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.
1:12.3	The Red Death had long devastated the country.
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1:20.0	Blood was its avatar and its seal, the redness and the horror of blood.
1:27.6	There were sharp pains and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores with desolation.
1:35.0	The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim were the
1:40.3	pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow men.
1:46.5	And the whole seizure, progress, and termination of the disease were the incidents of half an hour.
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