Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/

"[The revelers] died each in the despairing posture of his fall. The life of the ebony clock went out.... The flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"
🎨 Harry Clarke

#BookWormSat #Fiction #Literature #Horror #GothicHorror #Gothic #EdgarAllanPoe #MasqueoftheRedDeath

MIST1017/SPITOUFS-ANSIPOE-(24)-THE_MASQUE_OF_THE_RED_DEATH

Mistigram: here’s Lobo/Spitoufs’ #ANSIart cover page to #EdgarAllanPoe’s #MasqueOfTheRedDeath, part of their #ANSIPOE collection illustrating Poe’s complete works for BBS-based consumption. They were all included in the MIST1017 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

#ANSIArt #ANSIPOE #EdgarAllanPoe #Lobo #MasqueOfTheRedDeath #MIST1017 #Spitoufs #theMasqueOfTheRedDeath

Mikey Madison in Talks to Lead A24’s ‘Masque of the Red Death’
#Variety #News #MasqueoftheRedDeath #MikeyMadison

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/mikey-madison-masque-of-the-red-death-a24-1236418311/

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/masque-of-the-red-death/#masque

contains a link to a free audio version of Corey Doctorow's Masque of the Red Death. A story about #plutocrats holing up in a #bunker in the event of civilizational collapse.

Spoiler alert:

It does not end well for them, and that did not even require mobs with pitchforks.

#142holdheap #CoreyDoctorow #MasqueOfTheRedDeath