The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Huffduffed by Jax on November 4th, 2010

PodCastle Miniature 56: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Eric Luke.

THE “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.

download

Tagged with

Possibly related…

  1. Incubus by Tim Pratt

    Read by Chris Reynaga

    Every forty or fifty years the incubus and the succubus got together to catch up. This time they met in a quiet little bar, and the incubus said, “Yeah, it’s been hard these past few years. I did porn for a while, but these days, with Viagra and everything, it doesn’t matter what kind of a woodsman you are, because anybody can pop a pill and perform superhuman feats of sexual prowess.”

    The succubus nodded in sympathy, invisible serpents twining in her hair. “I hear you. There’s easy money in internet porn, but it’s no good for me, I miss the personal connection. But you can still do the gigolo thing, right?”

    Source: http://podcastle.org/2009/10/30/podcastle-miniature-40-incubus/

    download

    Tagged with

    —Huffduffed by Jax 2 years ago

  2. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

    "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator’s guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man’s heart is still beating under the floorboards.

    download

    Tagged with

    —Huffduffed by Jax 4 years ago

  3. The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles By Kij Johnson

    The heroic quest of a single cat.

    http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=37684

    download

    Tagged with

    —Huffduffed by Jax 3 years ago