The Saturday Night Special: “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe

What can I say? Few people are not familiar with Poe’s tale of people trying to isolate themselves from a ravaging pandemic, a tale eerily appropriate for our time.

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Author: Phil Slattery

Publisher, Rural Fiction Magazine; publisher, The Chamber Magazine; founder, the Farmington Writers Circle. I have written short stories and poetry for many years. In my careers as a Naval officer and in the federal government, I have written thousands of documents of many types. I am currently working on a second edition for my poetry collection and a few novels.

2 thoughts on “The Saturday Night Special: “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe”

  1. I first read the story many years ago, and I re-read it this year. And my reading took a whole different angle. I’m sure that’s happen to many other readers, too.

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    1. Yes, that happens to me as I get older. With maturity, I have a better handle on how the world operates and therefore I interpret things differently as my experience increases
      (and I like to think wisdom as well).

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