Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre
The Masque of the Red Death
The red death killed thousands of people. Its signs were red stains on the body, especially on the face, a lot of bleeding through the skin, and that was it: death was there in less than half an hour. Prince Prospero did not care about that. He just worried about himself and his friends. When the red death came to town, he went with his friends to a castle far away from there. He and his friends all went in there and they locked the doors. Outside was the red death. One day, Prince Prospero organized a big party, in which everyone had to wear a mask. There were seven rooms all in a row, in which the party would develop. Each one was painted all of a color. The last room was all painted in black. Its windows were made of a red glass, and a big clock was put in one of its walls. The party was going on as usual: there was wine, food, music, and a lot of people wearing masks, drinking, eating, dancing and talking. But not everything was going well that night: at twelve o'clock a stranger came to dance. He was dressed all in black, and his mask had red spots, like stains of blood. Everyone looked at him in confusion, and no one recognized him. The prince then ordered to kill him, for disturbing the dance, but the guards could not catch him. He went straight to the black room that was empty. The prince followed him, and tried to kill him with his sword, but as soon as he stepped in the black room, he fell dead on the floor. Then, when the others got his clothes off, they found nothing. And nothing means nothing. There was no body inside those clothes. Then they all started to run away from the black