Editing Ravenloft (section)

=== 2nd edition ===
Ravenloft was launched as a full-fledged campaign setting, for ''AD&D'' 2nd Edition, in 1990,<ref name="history">{{cite web|title=The History of TSR|url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDArchives_History.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924195557/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDArchives_History.asp|archive-date=2008-09-24|access-date=2005-08-20|publisher=[[Wizards of the Coast]]}}</ref> with the ''[[Ravenloft: Realm of Terror|Realm of Terror]]'' boxed set, popularly known as the "Black Box", and winner of the [[Origins Award]] in 1991 for "Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1990".<ref>{{cite web|title=Origins Award Winners (1990)|url=http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1990|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105015050/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1990 <!--bot-retrieved archive-->|archive-date=2007-11-05|access-date=2007-10-29|publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design}}</ref>

The campaign setting was revised twice during ''AD&D'' 2nd Edition: first as the ''Ravenloft Campaign Setting'' or "Red Box", then as the ''Domains of Dread'' hardback.

In 1994, Ravenloft spun off into a sub-setting called ''[[Masque of the Red Death (Ravenloft)|Masque of the Red Death]]'', set on Gothic Earth, an [[Edgar Allan Poe]]-influenced [[Alternate history|alternative Earth]] of the 1890s, where fantasy creatures and magic exist in the shadows of civilization.<ref>{{cite book|last=Connors|first=William|title=Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales|title-link=Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales|year=1994|publisher=[[TSR, Inc.]]|isbn=1-56076-877-0|author-link=William W. Connors}}</ref>

TSR also published a series of novels set in Ravenloft. Each was typically focused on one of the Darklords that inhabited the Ravenloft world, with several focusing on the figure of Count Strahd von Zarovich. Many of these early novels were by authors who would later receive wider fame as horror/dark fantasy authors. These authors have included [[Elaine Bergstrom]], [[P. N. Elrod]], [[Christie Golden]], and [[Laurell K. Hamilton]].<ref name="contemp">{{cite journal|date=January 1, 2007|title=Golden, Christie 1963–|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591000055.html|url-status=dead|journal=[[Contemporary Authors]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921212020/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591000055.html|archive-date=2014-09-21|access-date=2012-09-27|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Melton|first=J. Gordon|url=http://www.visibleink.com/title.php?id=41|title=The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead|year=1994|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=0-8103-2295-1|location=Detroit|page=852|author-link=J. Gordon Melton}}</ref>