The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

[David Morris]

I haven't read this work, but was just reading a summary of its story, and
I immediately thought of V.  Mondaugen's story of the Siege Party in the
South African castle seems to be taken directly from Poe's own siege Party
in The Masque of the Red Death.

http://www.shmoop.com/masque-of-red-death/summary.html

A terrible disease called the Red Death has struck the country. It's
incredibly fatal, horribly gruesome, and it's already killed off half the
kingdom. But the ruler of these parts, Prince Prospero, doesn't seem to
care about his poor, dying subjects. Instead, he decides to let the kingdom
take care of itself while he and a thousand of his favorite knights and
ladies shut themselves up in a fabulous castle to have one never-ending
party. Wine, women, music, dancing, fools—Prospero's castle has it all.
After the last guest enters, no one else can get in—the Prince has welded
the doors shut. That means no one can get out, either…
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