{"id":8568,"date":"2021-04-22T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2021-04-22T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:31:54","slug":"graphic-novel-review-masque-of-the-red-death-fine-art-edition-by-steven-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/graphic-novel-review-masque-of-the-red-death-fine-art-edition-by-steven-archer\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Novel Review: Masque of the Red Death: Fine Art Edition by Steven Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/masque_archer.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/masque_archer.gif\" alt=\"cover art for Masque of the Red Death: Fine Art Edition by Steven Archer\" width=\"145\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Masque of the Red Death <\/em>by Edgar Allan Poe, art by Steven Archer<\/p>\n<p>Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-13: 9781946335319<\/p>\n<p>Available: Paperback\u00a0\u00a0<strong>(\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/3144\/9781947879256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bookshop.org<\/a> )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prince Prospero, trying to avoid a deadly plague, the Red Death, ravaging the land, walls himself up inside his abbey along with a number of other wealthy nobles. To combat the boredom, the prince hosts a masquerade ball within seven rooms of the abbey, each one representing a different color. Near the end of the evening, a mysterious guest dressed as the Red Death reveals herself to the revelers and Prince Prospero.<\/p>\n<p>The story is not a rewrite of the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, but the artwork provides a new context to the tale. Written in 1842, this story has a resonance with the current global situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. Steven Archer, a multi-media visual artist, has moved the story from the plague-ridden countryside to the decadent American modern-day city. Archer also transformed the nebulous Red Death from the male incarnation in Poe&#8217;s original tale to a woman in his artwork. The images are visceral, energetic, and haunting. There are several pages that I would love to frame and hang on my walls.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the price tag raised my eyebrows, but seeing the quality of Archer&#8217;s artwork and how much went into the pieces, it is definitely worth it. There are 71 pages in the book, most of which include a full page of color art. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Contains: nudity, viscera<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Lizzy Walker<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0<strong>The Masque of the Red Death: Fine Art Edition\u00a0<\/strong>is a nominee on the final ballot for this year&#8217;s Stoker Awards in the category of Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, art by Steven Archer Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781946335319 Available: Paperback\u00a0\u00a0(\u00a0Bookshop.org ) &nbsp; Prince Prospero, trying to avoid a deadly plague, the Red Death, ravaging the land, walls himself up inside his abbey along with a number of other wealthy nobles. To combat<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/graphic-novel-review-masque-of-the-red-death-fine-art-edition-by-steven-archer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3457,970,3070,4862,1526,4863,4792],"class_list":["post-8568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adaptations","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-horror-graphic-novels","tag-masque-of-the-red-death","tag-short-stories","tag-steven-archer","tag-stoker-awards-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8572,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions\/8572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}