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The Strange and Unusual Podcast

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

4.71.8K 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.

1:15.0

No pestilence had ever been so fatal or so hideous.

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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