The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

[John Bailey]

I've spent my adult life thinking I really loved this story as a teen
but reading the synopsis I finally realise it was another great Poe
story (Hop-Frog) that I was thinking of. I remember Red Death being a
very nice Gothic entry, though. Also the siege/hothouse scenario it
presents is based around seven rooms, in the last of which is
black-shrouded death, which brings to mind the seven rooms Pudding
passes through during that most infamous of GR sections.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:47 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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