“… all this might have been endured, if not approved, by the mad revellers around. But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. His vesture was dabbled in blood -- and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.”

- from The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe

Hand-held, masquerade-style mask.