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"The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague , known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey .
Prince Prospero flees the red death. The Masque of the Red Death, picture by Roger Corman, 1964.. Diseases, disorders, infections, and pathogens have appeared in fiction as part of a major plot or thematic importance.
Red Death, a fictional disease in Osmosis Jones; Red Death, a fictional dragon in the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon; Masque of the Red Death (Ravenloft), a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game; The Red Death, a New York death metal band "Red Death at 6:14", a single by the American garage rock band The White Stripes.
Also known as chronic wasting disease, "zombie deer disease" is a prion disease, a rare, progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that affects deer, elk, moose and other animals, the CDC says.
By donating blood over 1,100 times, James Harrison helped develop Anti-D, a life-saving treatment for newborns at risk of Rhesus disease
The 1994 computer game Under a Killing Moon featured interludes in which text slides containing lines of The Masque of the Red Death were narrated by James Earl Jones.; The 1995 computer game The Dark Eye featured an abstract slide-show segment accompanying a reading of "The Masque of the Red Death" performed by William S. Burroughs.
Due to these side effects and its red color, doxorubicin has earned the nickname "red devil" [24] [25] or "red death." [26] Chemotherapy can cause reactivation of hepatitis B, and doxorubicin-containing regimens are no exception. [27] [28] Doxorubicin and several chemotherapeutic drugs (including cyclophosphamide) can cause a loss of skin ...
"I think I was only there the first day. Maybe I made it to day two," she added. "We did the read-throughs and they staged it, and then they're like, we better get somebody else."