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" The Masque of the Red Death " (originally published as " The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy ") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey.
The complete, unabridged text of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, with vocabulary words and definitions.
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The Masque of the Red Death. The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had been ever so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleedings at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the ...
The Red Death captures each dancer, one by one, the clock stops and the lights go out, and the Red Death finally rules over the whole realm. The masked figure is blood-stained and, after stalking ominously, kills the Prince in seconds – the figure is the personification of the plague.
Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story “The Masque of the Red Death” tells the tale of a wealthy prince named Prospero who locks himself and 1,000 of his companions inside a fortified palace in an attempt to avoid a plague.
May 17, 2024 · The Masque of the Red Death, allegorical short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham’s Magazine in April 1842. In a medieval land ravaged by the Red Death, a plague that causes swift, agonizing death, Prince Prospero retreats to his castle with 1,000 knights and ladies.
Jun 6, 2010 · The Masque of the Red Death. by Edgar Allan Poe. The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
