Author:  Edgar Allan Poe
Online reading time: 45 minutes
Published:  1842
Original language:  English
Type:  Story , Novel
Literary Genre: Detective, Horror, Fiction, Mystic Romance , Psychological Romance

The hero of Edgar Poe’s story The Masque of the Red Death, Prince Prospero, hides with his subjects in a closed monastery for the duration of a severe epidemic, leaving his subjects to their fate. The monastery is full of supplies and isolated, and the Prince, who has forgotten about the danger, organizes a masquerade ball there, and the Red Death himself shows up at it….