watroillustration:

“He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one
dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their
revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And
the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of
the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness
and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over
all.”