Book Review: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Prospero’s Party
This is a short story but somehow it seems like a novel, since Poe packed so much into just a few words.
A plague is devastating the country and half the population is dead. So how does Prince Prospero respond? He gathers 1,000 of his friends and secludes them in his abbey, which he believes will protect them all from the Red Death. His friends willingly go there, accepting Prospero as their guardian.
But Prospero has no intention of waiting fearfully for the Red Death to run it...