The Masque of the Red Death and Other Stories
by Edgar Allan Poe
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While outside the abbey's armoured walls the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence, within Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But the "Red Death" will not respect the immodest comfort of the Prince and his guests...
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 the deadly approach of a terrible pendulum, of the awful end of an ancient and noble house, and of the impossible beating of a dead heart.
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The Masque of the Red Death and Other Stories
2009, Penguin Books
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Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
Eleonora
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Fall of the House of Usher
Hop-Frog
Ligeia
Masque of the Red Death
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Tell-tale Heart
William Wilson
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