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Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story "The Masque of the Red Death" has appeared many times in popular culture. ==Literature== *In ''The Phantom of the Opera'' by Gaston Leroux, Erik appears at the masquerade dressed as the red death. *Stephen King's novel ''The Shining'' contains several allusions to the story. For example, the line "and the red death held sway over all" seems to reference the final line of Poe's story. It is alluded to more directly in volume six of his "Dark Tower" series. *In Tom Wolfe's novel ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'', this story is referenced by an elderly British author in a speech given at a socialite's party. *In Neil Gaiman's 1996 novel ''Neverwhere'', a minor character briefly mentions the story "The Masque of the Red Death" when describing a fancy event at a museum. Also, in "The Sandman : Endless Nights", the story "Death and Venice" seems to be heavily influenced by "The Masque of the Red Death", as Death of the Endless waits for the perfect time to "visit" Italian aristocrats during a Carnivalesque ball. *Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels references the story a couple of times; in ''Maskerade'' (which pastiches ''Phantom of the Opera'', see below), he wears a Red Death costume at the book's climax. In ''The Light Fantastic'', Death consoles himself after being summoned from an enjoyable party, noting that it was going to go downhill at midnight – as that's when everyone would have expected him to take his mask off. *The Chuck Palahniuk novel ''Haunted'' begins with a quote from "The Masque of the Red Death". Also, several of the rooms are colored with themes that reflect the story. *In the Dan Simmons novel ''The Terror'', an elaborate Carnivale and masque is staged outdoors by the crew of two ice-locked ships. The crew builds a series of multi-colored compartments for the event out on the ice using the ships' rigging and different colored paints. A crew member thinks of this idea from incompletely remembering a story by Poe he read in a magazine. *The last chapter of Valerio Evangelisti's novel ''Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich'' (''The Body and the Blood of Eymerich'') shares the story's title and retells its plot almost literally in the context of the book. *The second installment of the limited comic series ''Rocket Raccoon'', "The Masque of the Red Breath", featured an insidious red cloud, the Red Breath, which attacked a masquerade and "erased" its victims from existence. *White Wolf's trilogy Masquerade of the Red Death is named and has some elements based on this story. *''Masque of the Red Death'' — an erotic, "decadent" re-telling of the original Poe story in webcomic format by Wendy Pini * Bethany Griffin has written a two-volume re-imagining of Poe's story: ''Masque of the Red Death'' (2012, Greenwillow Books, ISBN 0062107798) and ''Dance of the Red Death'' (2013, Greenwillow Books, ISBN 0062107828) featuring a heroine named Araby Worth who also acts as narrator. *The fictional drama in the horror story collection ''The King in Yellow'' bears a similar plot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Masque of the Red Death in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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