Three short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, namely: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845), The Masque of the Red Death (1842) and The Tell-Tale Heart (1843); have quite a lot in common. But the 3 outstanding points about them are that, they are of the same genre of gothic and horror, they are all narrated by an unknown individual, and they all share the same mystical properties. Edgar Allen Poe

A compare and contrast essay about achieving goals in "The Swimmer" by John Cheever and "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Deals with comparing and contrasting of "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Seven Ages of Man" both by Edgar Allen Poe.

Compares and contrasts the protagonists in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Telltale Heart" and "The Masque of the Read Death, showing how they eventually fall to the same character flaw - overconfidence.

Provides a critical analysis of Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Masque of the Red Death." Addresses critics who try to relate Poe's story to The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Describes how Poe looked at artists and their limitations by morality.

In "The Masque of the Red Death," Edgar Allen Poe brings Gothic elements, influenced by Gothic architecture, into the story to give it a sense of dread and fear. Poe describes the placement of the rooms, the windows, and the clock to achieve this effect.