In spite of all precautions, the Red Death has invaded Milo's Mandelsson's sanctuary, his barricaded retreat atop Lookout Mountain. He thought himself and his few chosen companions safe from the plague of the Red Death, secure in his isolated retreat mansion, with the world and the spreading death within it, barred from his door. But it appears that's not to be. Magda Ostrum, the housekeeper Milo hired, has collapsed and every pore on her body is bleeding profusely...