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The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Masque of the Red Death

The "Red Death" in Poe's story is symbolic of death's inevitability and also references real epidemics like tuberculosis and the bubonic plague. While not a real disease, its characteristics resemble...

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