Kramer, Edgar Daniel 1887-1966 creator Brundage, Margaret 1900-1976 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats Murder 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.) Release date is 2025-07-30 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Originally published: Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 Short stories Horror tales Masks -- Fiction PS Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76592 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76592 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134755.0 76592