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So Where Do The Stories Come From launched as UndeadAuthorDiscussion: From YKTTW
Working Title: So Where Do The Stories Come From: From YKTTW
From the Edger Allan Poe example, moved due to natter:
- Strange unintentional semi-subversion: In The Masque of the Red Death, the titular Red Death kills everyone but itself. It's a skeleton, and therefore a literal Undead Author, at least in theory.
- That story was told via omniscient author, so no undead authors are necessary. The Red Death, incidentally wasn't a skeleton, though it often gets depicted as one in visual retellings, but a masquerade costume of a horribly decayed corpse with signs of the titular disease all over its skin. Underneath the costume there is nothing but air and disease.
- A zombie is still undead. And you're not getting out of this trope that easy.
- Strange unintentional semi-subversion: In The Masque of the Red Death, the titular Red Death kills everyone but itself. It's a skeleton, and therefore a literal Undead Author, at least in theory.
