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	In either case, the cults of the Queen in Red tend to take the forms of decadent doomsday cults, celebrating widespread death and disease as a necessary step closer to a new utopian order in which a chosen few are permitted to survive the ravages of the disease, either by early exposure or by quarantine, and then inherit a "cleansed and purified" world remade into their own shallow and rigidly-ordered (or in some cases anarchic or nihilistic) image of paradise.		In either case, the cults of the Queen in Red tend to take the forms of decadent doomsday cults, celebrating widespread death and disease as a necessary step closer to a new utopian order in which a chosen few are permitted to survive the ravages of the disease, either by early exposure or by quarantine, and then inherit a "cleansed and purified" world remade into their own shallow and rigidly-ordered (or in some cases anarchic or nihilistic) image of paradise.
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		+	The [[Men in Black]] have also been known appear when the Queen in Red is active, reported in medieval Europe wearing the eerie beaked costumes of masked and black-robed plague doctors. The role of the Men in Black in serving the Queen in Red is unclear, but they reportedly interfere with investigators who would attempt to report on, spy on, or stop the activities of the Queen's "courts", "masques", "parties", and cultists.

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-I hear the music, daylight disc; / Three [[Men in Black]] said, "Don't report this." / "Ascension," and that's all they said, / Sickness now, the hour's dread... / I'm in fairy rings and tower beds / "Don't report this," three men said. / Books by the blameless and by the dead, / [[The King in Yellow (tome)|King in Yellow]], [[The Queen in Red (tome)|Queen in Red]]....
+I hear the music, daylight disc; / Three [[Men in Black]] said, "Don't report this." / "Ascension," and that's all they said, / Sickness now, the hour's dread... / I'm in fairy rings and tower beds / "Don't report this," three men said. / Books by the blameless and by the dead, / ''[[The King in Yellow (tome)|King in Yellow]]'', ''[[The Queen in Red (tome)|Queen in Red]]''....
 <br>— [[Blue Oyster Cult]], "E.T.I."
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 ==Related Mythos Elements==
 * setting:  [[Dreamlands]], [[Carcosa|Dreamland of Carcosa]] (where the Queen in Red may rule or be worshiped in some of the Dream Cities neighboring or rivaling Carcosa, such as Alar or Yhtill)
-* deity: [[King in Yellow]] (perhaps part of the same pantheon)
+* deity: [[King in Yellow]] (apparently part of the same pantheon)
 * deity: [[Nyarlathotep]] (the Queen in Red is sometimes reputed to be an Avatar of Nyarlathotep)
-* cult: [[Men in Black]] (known to have become active at times when the Red Death spreads)
+* cult: [[Men in Black]] (known to have become active at times when the Red Death spreads, historically depicted being dressed in the costumes of bird-skull-masked plague doctors in black hats and robes)
 * cult: [[Human Cultist]]s (generally disorganized, often taking the form of decadent doomsday cults, which may be especially fashionable among the rich and famous)
 * race: [[Star Vampire]]s (suspected of causing or spreading the Red Death, these entities may serve the Queen in Red as agents on Earth or in the Dreamlands)

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-I hear the music, daylight disc; / Three [[Men in Black]] said, "Don't report this." / "Ascension," and that's all they said, / Sickness now, the hour's dread... / I'm in fairy rings and tower beds / "Don't report this," three men said. / Books by the blameless and by the dead, / [[King in Yellow]], Queen in Red....
+I hear the music, daylight disc; / Three [[Men in Black]] said, "Don't report this." / "Ascension," and that's all they said, / Sickness now, the hour's dread... / I'm in fairy rings and tower beds / "Don't report this," three men said. / Books by the blameless and by the dead, / [[The King in Yellow (tome)|King in Yellow]], [[The Queen in Red (tome)|Queen in Red]]....
 <br>— [[Blue Oyster Cult]], "E.T.I."
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 * race: [[Star Vampire]]s (suspected of causing or spreading the Red Death, these entities may serve the Queen in Red as agents on Earth or in the Dreamlands)
 * tome: ''[[The King in Yellow (tome)]]''
-* tome: ''[[The Red Queen (tome)]]''
+* tome: ''[[The Queen in Red (tome)]]''

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 * deity: [[King in Yellow]] (perhaps part of the same pantheon)
 * deity: [[Nyarlathotep]] (the Queen in Red is sometimes reputed to be an Avatar of Nyarlathotep)
 * cult: [[Men in Black]] (known to have become active at times when the Red Death spreads)
 * cult: [[Human Cultist]]s (generally disorganized, often taking the form of decadent doomsday cults, which may be especially fashionable among the rich and famous)
 * race: [[Star Vampire]]s (suspected of causing or spreading the Red Death, these entities may serve the Queen in Red as agents on Earth or in the Dreamlands)
 * tome: ''[[The Red Queen (tome)]]''

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	* cult: [[Human Cultist]]s (generally disorganized, often taking the form of decadent doomsday cults, which may be especially fashionable among the rich and famous)		* cult: [[Human Cultist]]s (generally disorganized, often taking the form of decadent doomsday cults, which may be especially fashionable among the rich and famous)
	* race: [[Star Vampire]]s (suspected of causing or spreading the Red Death, these entities may serve the Queen in Red as agents on Earth or in the Dreamlands)		* race: [[Star Vampire]]s (suspected of causing or spreading the Red Death, these entities may serve the Queen in Red as agents on Earth or in the Dreamlands)
		+	* tome: ''The [[Red Queen (Tome)]]''

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 The entity's hand may also be perceived to be at work in the turbulent words, actions, and policies of pundits, politicians, scientists, demagogues, cultists, executives, and celebrities in the wake of the spread of the Red Death:  seemingly disorganized and contradictory, but all weirdly working together toward the passing of the world from the hands of old, known gods, into the hands of a feverish "New Normal".  Here, the cult of the Red Queen tends to become fashionable among the rich, famous, powerful, indolent and effete.
-In either case, the cults of the Queen in Red tend to take the forms of decadent doomsday cults, celebrating widespread death and disease as a necessary step closer to a new utopian order in which a chosen few are permitted to survive the ravages of the disease, either by early exposure or by quarantine, and then inherit a "cleansed and purified" world remade into their own shallow and rigidly-ordered image of paradise.
+In either case, the cults of the Queen in Red tend to take the forms of decadent doomsday cults, celebrating widespread death and disease as a necessary step closer to a new utopian order in which a chosen few are permitted to survive the ravages of the disease, either by early exposure or by quarantine, and then inherit a "cleansed and purified" world remade into their own shallow and rigidly-ordered (or in some cases anarchic or nihilistic) image of paradise.
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 <br>—[[Edgar Allan Poe]], "[[Masque of the Red Death (fiction)]]"
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-The Red Death is a plague that has taken many forms and many names ("The Red Death", "Aka-Chan", "The Queen in Red", "Healter-Skelter" [''sic'']], "Captain Trips"), but always spreads in advance of the return of the Queen in Red to earth:  it has generally been known as a fever with flu-like symptoms followed quickly by dizziness, bleeding at the pores, lurid red lesions about the increasingly pale and skull-like face, rapid decay, and death within a short period of time.
+The Red Death is a plague that has taken many forms and many names ("The Red Death", "Aka-Chan", "The Queen in Red", "Healter-Skelter" [''sic''], "Captain Trips"), but always spreads in advance of the return of the Queen in Red to earth:  it has generally been known as a fever with flu-like symptoms followed quickly by dizziness, bleeding at the pores, lurid red lesions about the increasingly pale and skull-like face, rapid decay, and death within a short period of time.
 A sort of social or spiritual madness also seems to accompany the spread of the Red Death, bringing out the worst in mankind, and especially their rulers, the wealthy, powerful, and famous, as they try to reinvent the society around them, guiding it into a "New Normal" better suited for their debauchery; these giants among men, architects of the new world of the Red Death, also seem in the end to have been the ultimate self-destructive targets of the very doom they have opened the door to, to their own shock and horror.  Historically, the Red Death has burned itself out almost as suddenly and unexpectedly as it started, taking the avatar of the Red Queen and its cultists to oblivion with it, but the Red Queen's cultists are known to subscribe to a prophecy that one day, the Red Queen will return to rule the earth forever, and perhaps that day is already here, and it is best to be on the Right Side of History when the Red Queen at last assumes her throne, and the Red Death rages across the land, subduing and ravishing the pitiful riffraff beyond the walls of the estates of the Red Queen's cults forever.