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 madnessOutside 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 ...
