The Masque of the Red Death: And Other Stories

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... <br/> <br/>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 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. <br/>--back cover