The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Harrowing tales from a forefather of horror, this collection brings some of Poe’s best-known works together in one beautiful edition.

The Masque of the Red Death By Edgar Allan Poe

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781537015934
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/11/2016
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.06(d)

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself courtmartialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twentyone on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.