The Masque of the Red Death
However you try to escape it, horror is always there Outside the abbey's armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the 'Red Death', while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But, in their immodest comfort, the...
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However you try to escape it, horror is always there Outside the abbey's armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the 'Red Death', while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But, in their immodest comfort, the Prince and his guests are not as safe as they hope from the horrors of the outside world ...In "The Masque of the Red Death" and other tales of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors - of torments of ingenious, malevolent tormentors and of a mind's own sickening madness.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594567391 (1594567395)
Publish date: April 30th 2004
Publisher: BookSurge Classics
Pages no: 16
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Gothic,
Fiction
People have been peeling the skin off of this onion for decades. Still a great story.
Not my favorite EAP story, but as always he can do no wrong.
Five stars. It's Poe, what else do you expect.Also, I watched the movie. Creepy. I liked it.
Very complex story with beautiful language. Something you definitely need to read several times to fully absorb.
This was creepy and delicious. I am now ready to read the Masque of the Red Death. Let's hope it's just as good.
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