The Masque of The Red Death - Film, TV, Theatrical or Radio Adaptations

Film, TV, Theatrical or Radio Adaptations

• The story inspired Russian filmmaker Vladimir Gardin's A Spectre Haunts Europe in 1921.

• Basil Rathbone read the entire short story in his early 1960s Caedmon LP recording The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Other audiobook recordings have had Christopher Lee, Hurd Hatfield, Martin Donegan and Gabriel Byrne as readers.

• Short films based on the story include a 1969 Zagreb Film production, Maska crvene smrti, and a 2006 Tarantula production directed by Jacques Donjean, Le Masque de la Mort rouge, and a 2007 Pro Vision Media production directed by Mat Van Rhoon.

• The story was adapted in 1964 by Roger Corman as a film, The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price. The film also adapted parts of another Poe story, "Hop-Frog", involving the court jester and his wife. Corman produced, but did not direct a remake of the film in 1989, starring Adrian Paul as Prince Prospero.

• The story was adapted, combined with elements from Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", by American director Orson Welles as a planned episode for the Poe anthology film Spirits of the Dead, which was to have starred Welles as Prince Prospero and Oja Kodar as Fortunata. The French producers replaced the episode with segments directed by Roger Vadim and Louis Malle.

• The story was adapted by George Lowther for the January 10, 1975, broadcast of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. It starred Karl Swenson and Staats Cotsworth.

• A radio reading was performed by Winifred Phillips, with music she composed. The program was produced by Winnie Waldron as part of National Public Radio's Tales by American Masters series.

• The story has been adapted by Punchdrunk Productions, in collaboration with Battersea Arts Centre, as a promenade theatre performance in Battersea from September 17, 2007 to April 12, 2008.