The Masque of the Red Death: When The Door Should Have Stayed Closed

Behind locked gates and iron resolve, Prince Prospero builds a world untouched by suffering. Music fills the halls. Costumes shimmer under shifting colors. The outside world is dismissed as something distant, something already defeated. Inside, laughter rises easily-until the night begins to press back.

The masquerade grows stranger with every passing hour. Rooms glow with unnatural hues, each more unsettling than the last. A clock marks time with a sound no one can ignore. Each chime halts ...