The Masque of the Red Death
Message found in a Bottle
The Premature Burial
The Raven
The Sphinx
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Complete Collection of Poems
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
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. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon
the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from
the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole
seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents
of half an hour.
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