Book description
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.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 49), was born in Boston, USA. He was a
short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part
of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery
and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of
the short story and is considered the inventor the detective-fiction
genre.
