Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
The Masque of the Red Death - From the Master of the Macabre Comes a Classic of Unspeakable Terror - cover

The Masque of the Red Death - From the Master of the Macabre Comes a Classic of Unspeakable Terror

Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Diamond Book Publishing

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy" (1842), is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball within seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn.
Available since: 01/13/2021.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Consequences - Stories - cover

    The Consequences - Stories

    Manuel Muñoz

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    "Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal.These exquisite stories are set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but are regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra, as well as the quotidian struggles and immense challenges faced by their families. The messy and sometimes violent realities navigated by his characters—straight and gay, immigrant and American-born, young and old—are tempered by moments of surprising, tender care: Two young women meet on a bus to Los Angeles to retrieve husbands who must find their way back from the border after being deported; a gay couple plans a housewarming party that reveals buried class tensions; a teenage mother slips out to a carnival where she encounters the father of her child; the foreman of a crew of fruit pickers finds a dead body and is subsequently—perhaps literally—haunted.In The Consequences, obligation can shape, support, and sometimes derail us. It's a magnificent new book from a gifted writer at the height of his powers.
    Show book
  • Exasperated - A Short Story Collection - The simplest things become the hardest tasks - cover

    Exasperated - A Short Story...

    J M Barrie, Frank Stockton, GK...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In this volume we discover that the obvious and the easy are not perhaps as obvious and easy as our authors first present them. 
     
    They play with us.  There is certainty.  Then there is uncertainty.  There is a fact and then seemingly not. 
     
    One thing we can rely on though is that each new twist and turn takes us on a journey of frustration and exasperation that is as enjoyable as it is bewildering. 
     
    And, in the company of the sparkling wits of Chesterton, Aumonier, Barrie and a host of others who summon indignation and vexation as they rile and befuddle us then being exasperated was never quite so much fun. 
     
    01 - Exasperated - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
    02 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton 
    03 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome 
    04 - Putois by Anatole France 
    05 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton 
    06 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 
    07 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 
    08 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne 
    09 - The Mysterious Card by Cleveland Moffet 
    10 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier
    Show book
  • Naya Qanoon - cover

    Naya Qanoon

    Saadat Hasan Manto

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Naya Qanoon is a classic Urdu short story set in the back ground of British rule in the Sub Continent. It was inspired by the promulgation of the Act of India 1935. The story revolves around a tonga driver, Mangoo, who despises the British Colonizers and cannot wait for the new Act which he mistakenly believes will end colonial rule. He receives a big shock when on the first day under the new act he refuses to be humiliated by a British customer and hits back. He is shocked when he is arrested for assualting a Gora Sahib. Saadat Hassan Manto (May 11 ,1912 - Jan 18 1955) was a short story writer of Kashmiri heritage. He is best know for his short stories, 'Bu',  'Khol Do', ' Thanda Gosht', and his magnum opus, Toba Tek Shingh
    Show book
  • Better Never Than Late - cover

    Better Never Than Late

    Chika Unigwe

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. A harrowing encounter on a train haunts Añuli. A mother abandons her child in search of personal freedom. A wife joins her husband, only to be met with news that threatens their relationship.
    
    This richly imagined collage of interconnected stories follows Prosperous and Agu, and the motley community of Nigerian expats who gather at their apartment each week. Their reality is one of dashed hopes, twisted love and the pain of homesickness, even as they fight to make their way in this new world.
    Better Never Than Late is a layered and affecting portrayal of the everyday absurdities and adversities of migrant life.
    Show book
  • Story Cities - flash fictions - cover

    Story Cities - flash fictions

    Annabel Banks

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city.
    
    Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, cafés, hotels, parks, stations and ports; the main streets, side streets, back alleys dead ends and the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own.
    Includes work from writers in Australia, Eire, Indonesia,Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, USA, and right across the UK
    Annabel Banks, Melaina Barnes, Laura Besley, Maja Bodenstein, Jayne Buxton, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Rosamund Davies, Roland Denning, Liam Hogan, Cath Holland, Belinda Huang, Catherine Jones, Aisling Keogh, Jess Kilby, Jasmin Kirkbride, Stuart Larner, Wes Lee, Emma Lee, Cathy Lennon, Ash Lim, C.A. Limina, Máire Malone, David Mathews, Nicholas McGaughey, Rachael McGill, Dave Murray, Pedro Basso Neves, Alexandra Penland, Cherry Potts, Matthew Pountney, Arna Radovich, Kam Rehal, Jane Roberts, Reshma Ruia, Jesse Sensibar, Shamini Sriskandarajah , Miriam Sorrentino, Stuart Larner, Patty Tomsky, Evleen Towey, Nic Vine, Rob Walton, Steven Wingate,
    Show book
  • The Man who Missed the Bus - cover

    The Man who Missed the Bus

    Stella Benson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer.'The Man Who Missed the Bus' is a creepy horror story about a lonely and eccentric man who finds himself unable to see other human faces. Worse still, .gradually he also loses the ability to see his own reflection in the mirror. But this is only the beginning of the horror story. Far worse is to come....
    Show book