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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

Start date: July 1, 2017

Finish date: July 31, 2017

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May 31, 2020 Sara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: short-stories-novellas, horror, gothic

Edgar Allan Poe’s highly symbolic short story about death and the futility of attempting to avoid it, is one of the most read short stories of all time. In these days of pestilence abroad, it made for a reminder that things could be worse, but also that time marches regardless of circumstance and that death is to come for all of us, and often when least expected.

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Jan 18, 2024 midnightfaerie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, favorites, classics, literature

Another one of my favorites of Poe's. So creepy. Maybe it's my imagination but I can totally imagine something like this happening. I remember being at a dance club once in my college years and I got the same feeling described in the story. It was almost like a pure evil. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves but I felt distinctly uneasy all of a sudden. I remember getting out of there pretty quickly. Never knew if something happened there, but I don't regret leaving that night. This story r ...more

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Dec 19, 2024 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-classics, group-read, published-1899-and-earlier, read-date-unknown

Poe hit fast and hard with this incredible short story about a deadly plague that swept across the land and a group of wealthy people who attempted to seal themselves off from it. A wonderfully creepy, gothic story.

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Nov 27, 2023 Alexander rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, horror

I picked this collection of short stories up for my birthday. It was my first Edgar Allan Poe. This particular collection was curated to coincide with the Netflix series Fall of the House of Usher (which is also included in this collection). Each of the stories contained in here are the inspirations for the characters, episodes and more from the show.

I really enjoyed the book, and in the small format it read very quickly. Sometimes Poe's verbose nature means that you get lost in his paragraph l ...more

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