Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales, subtitled "Terror in the 1890s", was published by TSR in 1994 as an alternate campaign setting for the horror fantasy role-playing game Ravenloft, which itself uses the rules from the 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

For example, necromancers practice dark arts among the slave traders of New Orleans, while spirit creatures stalk the settlers of the American West, and Sherlock Holmes shares a railroad car with Count Dracula.

"[5] In Issue 86 of the French games magazine Casus Belli, Fabrice Colin commented on the risk of modifying a favorite setting like Ravenloft, saying, "With an impressive number of modifications, additions and corrections, the authors took the plunge and offered us a product that was ultimately honest.

However, fans of Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson or Arthur Conan Doyle risk being disappointed: the literate prose does not succeed in masking a truly Manichean and yet confusingly banal background."

Ultimately, Colin was torn in two directions, writing, "Certainly, we have here a universe sufficiently created and documented to allow long hours of play, three good scenarios ... plus a very beautiful map and a screen, all for a very reasonable price.

Colin concluded, "Those who detest [AD&D] can easily turn to other products (Cthulhu by Gaslight or Castle Falkenstein) to taste the delights of the Victorian era.