Masque of the Red Death (published 1842)

Our audience finds themselves in the midst of the Red Death, which has long devastated our country—with blood as its avatar and its seal. But Prince Prospero is happy and dauntless and sagacious.

While his dominions are half depopulated, he summons to his presence his hale and light-hearted friends from among the nobles of his kingdom to his castellated abbeys, where they will lock themselves in and away from the peasants and the Red Death for a ball of unusual magnificence, proceeding through many entertainments and into many colored rooms, one after the next.

Join your fellow revelers now, in the Red Room.

Artists of Ballet Fantastique | Bob Williams Photography