MASQUE of the RED DEATH

"...and darkness and decay and the Red Death held dominion over all."   -Edgar Allan Poe.

In order to create this image some years ago, I took a  google reference photo of the skeleton prop from Dr Terror's House of Horrors and, when painting it, gave it a bit of a make-over, crafting in a red cape and "fixing" the teeth (in the original photo, many of the upper front teeth were missing) and with a fancy, lurid nimbus....VIOLA!!! Poe's RED DEATH.....(Or I coulda jus' painted Vincent Price....   )