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The Masque Of The Red Death Disease
The Masque of the Red Death is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. A horrible disease ravaged a kingdom and killed half of the country. The disease’s effects are gruesome to say the least.
The effects of the disease were as follows: sudden dizziness, sharp pains, bleeding from the pores and finally death. All of this took place within 30 minutes, but it wasn’t a fast or painless 30 minutes. While this disease was destroying the kingdom the prince, Prospero was his name, locked himself and his friends in his castle to wait out The Red Death. While they were locked in the castle they couldn’t have cared less about what was going on outside the castle.

While they were at the castle they threw lavish parties while everyone outside

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