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Pale Rider is a 1985 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars in the lead role. The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the pale horse's ghost rider (Eastwood) represents Death. The film, which took in over $41 million at the box office, became the highest-grossing Western of the ...
The historian Alfred W. Crosby considered Pale Horse, Pale Rider to be such an exceptional depiction of the suffering caused by the influenza that he dedicated his book about the 1918 epidemic to Porter. The author Robert Penn Warren said "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" was "at the top level, you know, in that collection of the world's short novels." [10]
In the song "The Grand Conjuration" by Opeth from Ghost Reveries makes a reference to the pale horse rider (Death) searching the Earth. In the Genesis song "Anyway", from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the character Rael is facing death in a cave and sings "Anyway, they say she comes on a pale horse, But I'm sure I hear a train."
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The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961, [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. [2] [3] The UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/- = 75p) [1] and the US edition at $3.75. [3]
The Pale Horse, a 1961 novel by Agatha Christie; The Pale Horseman, a 2005 novel by Bernard Cornwell; On a Pale Horse, a 1983 novel by Piers Anthony; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a 1939 collection of three short novels by Katherine Anne Porter; Pale Horse, a 1995 play by Joe Penhall; Pale Horse, a fictional band in Alan Moore's comic Watchmen
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Death on the Pale Horse, Benjamin West, 1817. According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation of the Four Horsemen as symbolic prophecy of the history of the Roman Empire, the second seal is opened and the Roman nation that experienced joy, prosperity, and triumph is made subject to the red horse which depicts war and bloodshed—civil war.