The Masque of the Red Death (Biblioteca Edgar Allan Poe, #15) (Penguin Gothic Classics) (Tale Blazers: American Literature)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Raymond Harris (Editor) and Robert J Pailthorpe (Illustrator)

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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.

  • ISBN10 0890612722
  • ISBN13 9780890612729
  • Publish Date 1 May 1982 (first published 1 May 1842)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 March 2021
  • Imprint NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 48
  • Language English