Masque of the Red Death (Ravenloft) Masque of the Red Death (Ravenloft) Masque of the Red Death is a campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, named after the Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name. The setting was published after the release of the "Ravenloft" campaign setting in 1994 as "Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales", and is regarded as an add-on for that line. "Masque of the Red Death" has many of the same qualities as "Ravenloft", such as "power checks" and restricted magic, including limited planar travel. Unlike Ravenloft, the location of the adventures is "Gothic Earth",
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971 film) hired to direct the film. Hessler says he felt the story was so familiar it needed to be changed, so he and writer Christopher Wicking decided to do it as a play-within-a-play, with a mystery happening around a theatre that was putting on a production of "Murder in the Rue Morgue". The new storyline owned a lot to "Phantom of the Opera". Hessler said Vincent Price "was very upset that he wasn't in" the film "but I had nothing to with that." He thought Price was having contractual fights with AIP at the time. Hessler says AIP hired Jason Robard