tagline: A side-trek based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe, for levels 4-6 from the introduction: This adventure is a short side-trek for characters level 4-6 and can be placed in nearly any campaign world. A terrible plague has ravaged the nearby countryside. The characters track the source of the plague to a secluded abbey on a barren hilltop. Inside they discover the scene of a cursed and haunted masquerade gone horribly wrong. They must defeat the guardians of the Red Death and the Red Death itself. Once vanquished, the plague begins to disappear from the surrounding land.