The Scarlet Plague that biographers and critics have called a "professional decline", from September 1912 to May 1916. In this period, he stopped writing short works and shifted to longer works including "The Abysmal Brute" (1913), "John Barleycorn" (1913), "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1914), "The Star Rover" (1915), among others. "The Scarlet Plague" was later reprinted in the February 1949 issue of "Famous Fantastic Mysteries". Jack London was inspired in part by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story "The Masque of the Red Death". Both Poe's story and London's fall into a genre of apocalyptic fiction featuring a universal plague that nearly
The Masque of the Red Death (play) Town Hall had been built. However, in order to reach this point, it was necessary for the participants to work together and interact with the sets, props, and at times the actors themselves, within the Masque of the Red Death show, as well as by solving puzzles online. The Masque of the Red Death (play) The Masque Of The Red Death was an original theatre production by British theatre company Punchdrunk, in collaboration with the Battersea Arts Centre that ran from September 2007 to April 2008 The Masque of the Red Death was a major theatre production by British company