The Masque of the Red Death

📙 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 Рое 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.