#the masque of the red death

*Jeanette’s ‘Muchacho Del Los Ojos Tristes’ muffled in the BG* this party sucks

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” - Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death
art by Carlos Dearmas

cineemaa:

horror → castles

And the next bunch:

11- Near Dark
12- Suspiria (2018)
13- Cat People (1942)
14- The Mummy Returns
15- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
16- Scream Fortress
17- In the Mouth of Madness

“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 revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

I’m so close to finishing my designs for the Red Death! So to celebrate have some scrapped mask explorations! 

Silhouettes for class, we have to design a character from a book list, and I just had to go with The Masque of the Red Death. I know the Red Death doesn’t wear a plague doctor mask in the story, but y’all should know me by now and what I stand for. I’ve never done silhouettes before either so it was a really fun exercise and I’m looking forward to to developing one of these further! 

“He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”