The Masque of the Red Death and Other Stories
Series: Chillers
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780141193953
Description: 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 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. 
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Table of contents: title: The Fall of the House of Usher; title: Ligeia; title: The Oval Portrait; title: Eleonora; title: The Masque of the Red Death; title: The Pit and the Pendulum; title: The Tell-Tale Heart; title: The Black Cat; title: William Wilson; title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; title: The Cask of Amontillado; title: Hop-Frog