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The masque of the red death (original title).
A rich politician calls all his family and friends to quarentine themselves. Prospero gives a masquerade ball. The red death walks from the rooms in that order, as if he is walking through the course of life. Shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls
