02071cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000370011324500160015026400510016630000470021733600260026433700260029033800360031649000410035250000310039350800960042452008730052053400860139365300180147965300170149765300210151470000350153583000410157085600550161185600430166676592UtSlPG20260610134755.0mcr n260607r20251937utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aKramer, Edgar Daniel,d1887-196610aMurder mask 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937.  aRelease date is 2025-07-30  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  aMurder mask by Edgar Daniel Kramer is a short piece of weird/crime fiction written in the late 1930s. Centered on a cursed medieval-style silk mask, it explores how jealousy, inheritance, and a high-society masquerade collide when the wearer is fated to kill the one they love before dawn.  Antonio Colletti, embittered after Nita Tosca marries his cousin Tomaso Romani, returns with the ominous mask and a warning verse, secretly prepared to use poison if needed. At their all-night masque, Romani dons the mask and grows violently jealous, dragging Nita into an alcove where, in a frenzy, he stabs her. Horrified, he forces Colletti to put on the mask; compelled to slay whom he loves best—himself—Colletti drinks his own poison and dies. Romani then kills himself beside Nita as the revelry ends and morning breaks. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937  aShort stories  aHorror tales  aMasks -- Fiction1 aBrundage, Margaret,d1900-1976 0aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937.4 uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N0619370640uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76592