The masque of the Red Death and other stories
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The masque of the Red Death and other stories
（Pocket Penguin classics）
Penguin, 2012
- : pbk
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The masque of the Red Death
The masque of the Red Death
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"Published as a Penguin red classic 2008. Published as a Pocket Penguin classic 2012"--T.p. verso
"Cover design and illustration: Coralie Bickford-Smith"--Back cover
On spine, back cover: 9
Contents of Works
- The fall of the house of Usher
- Ligeia
- The oval portrait
- Eleonora
- The masque of the Red Death
- The pit and the pendulum
- The tell-tale heart
- The black cat
- William Wilson
- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar
- The cask of amontillado
- Hop-frog
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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 malevolent tormentors and of a mind's own sickening madness
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 ...
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