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* The Stranger in Pallid Mask mentioned in Robert E. Chambers' ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' short stories, and in Thom Ryng's [[Defictionalization]] of the titular play appears to be wearing something like this. The key word is [[The Faceless|appears.]]
{{quote| '''The Stranger:''' I wear no mask.}}
* In [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Till We Have Faces]]'', the protagonist Orual spends most of her life wearing a white veil, which is portrayed in the illustrations as a white mask, completely featureless save for two eyeholes. While she's not evil per se, her subjects are definitely put off by it, and rumors spread about what she's hiding under her veil.
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''Masquerade'', the Opera Ghost wears a white mask which the narration consistently describes as "like the skull of an angel".