loveneverfalters:loveneverfalters:THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: GASTON LEROUX — Chapter IX - At the Mask
loveneverfalters:loveneverfalters:THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: GASTON LEROUX — Chapter IX - At the Masked Ball.… Then one, greatly daring, did try to touch him…but a skeleton hand shot out of a crimson sleeve and violently seized the rash one’s wrist; and he, feeling the clutch of the knucklebones, the furious grasp of Death, uttered a cry of pain and terror. When Red Death released him at last, he ran away like a very madman, pursued by the jeers of the bystanders. -- source link