click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.16 And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. [...]
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…the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.15 It was then, however that the Prince Prospero, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers–while none followed him on account of a deadly terror that had seized upon all. He bore aloft a [...]
…the vast assembly shrank from the centres of the rooms…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.14 It was in the blue room where stood the prince, with a group of pale courtiers by his side. At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment [...]
-stop him and strip him, I say…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.13 When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image (which with a slow and solemn movement, as if more fully to sustain its role, stalked to and fro among the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment [...]
The figure was tall and gaunt…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.12 In an assembly of phantasms such as I have painted, it may well be supposed that no ordinary appearance could have excited such sensation. In truth the masquerade license of the night was nearly unlimited; but the figure in question had out-Heroded Herod, [...]