No, I know it as Red Death from a novel, too - wish I could think of the author <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
Kiya - amnesia partialis

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here's even a song about it - about the plague. IIRC it was a certain kind of plague, the one where you bled to death (bubonic plague?)

YEAH! Edgar Allen Poe: The mask of the red death - Hah, I knew I would remember it - one of my favourite authors as a child <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />