![]() Eros Ramazzotti's song 'Lettera al futuro' ('Letter to the future'), from his 1996 album Dove c'è musica, retells the main events of the story in a simplified form, without mentioning any specific characters or names but vaguely connecting the plague mentioned in the story to AIDS, and concludes with the singer's hope, addressed to an imaginary unborn child, that such events will not happen any longer in the future.The program was produced by Winnie Waldron as part of National Public Radio's Tales by American Masters series. A radio reading was performed by Winifred Phillips, with music she composed.The story was adapted by George Lowther for a broadcast on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater (January 10, 1975), starring Karl Swenson and Staats Cotsworth.Other audiobook recordings have featured Christopher Lee, Hurd Hatfield, Martin Donegan and Gabriel Byrne as readers. Basil Rathbone read the entire short story in his Caedmon LP recording The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (early 1960s).A revised version was published in the Jedition of the Broadway Journal under the now-standard title 'The Masque of the Red Death.' The original title emphasized the figure at the end of the story the new title puts emphasis on the masquerade ball. Poe first published the story in the May 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine as 'The Mask of the Red Death', with the tagline 'A Fantasy'. ![]()
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