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The Masque of the Red Death audiobook
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Category: Classics, Fiction
- Length: 1 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The Masque of the Red Death Audiobook Summary
A cinematic audiobook with a haunting score and enhanced atmosphere
Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Masque of the Red Death” nearly 180 years ago, yet its narrative and characters continue to mystify and captivate. The short story is driven by Prince Prospero’s attempt to evade the “Red Death,” a fatal plague infecting his kingdom, by hiding in his abbey, where he indulges in pleasures and delights with other nobles. He soon finds out that no one can escape their end.
Steven Archer has recast the characters of “The Masque” and illuminated the narrative in a novel and perhaps more visceral light, while remaining true to the raw darkness and decadence of the tale. His modern take on the classic story brings it into our new infected world. Perhaps it was prescience that drove him to create the illustrations in 2018, only to have them see the plague-filled light of day in 2020. Even now in our enlightened and modern world, “Darkness and Decay and the Red Death holds illimitable dominion over all.”
With a foreword by John Langan (The Wide Carnivorous Sky), this is an immersive audio-visual feast that breathes new life into this classic memento mori tale of disease, decadence, and inevitable mortality.
The audiobook features a conversation between Steven Archer and Stefan Rudnicki and includes an accompanying PDF of Steven Archer’s original illustrations.
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The Masque of the Red Death Audiobook Narrator
Stefan Rudnicki is the narrator of The Masque of the Red Death audiobook that was written by Edgar Allan Poe
Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card’s best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender’s Game, Publishers Weekly stated, “Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender’s inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take.” Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.
About the Author(s) of The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe is the author of The Masque of the Red Death
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The Masque of the Red Death Full Details
| Narrator | Stefan Rudnicki |
| Length | 1 hours 7 minutes |
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 16, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798200754021 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Masque of the Red Death is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Skyboat Media. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798200754021.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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