Similarities Between The Masque Of The Red Death And Nothing In The Dark

Death is the equalizer of human kind, no matter if you are dirt poor or if you have all the money in the world. Death will find you and you will exhale your last ever breath. Two stories that take a look at death in two completely different ways are Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and George Clayton Johnson's "nothing in the Dark." Both may seem to have nothing in common, but taking a closer look reveals many important similarities between "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Nothing in the Dark," settings, protagonists, and antagonists.

In a beautiful castle or in a condemned tenement death will find you. Although the settings in the two stories are in no way alike they both are depicted as a prison for the protagonists. "The