Great Short Stories Reading Group
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O’Neal Library 50 Oak Street , Mountain Brook, Alabama 35213
Register your email to receive a link to the Zoom meeting the morning of the event: http://emmetoneal.libnet.info/event/3784015
Please join Great Short Stories for a rousing discussion of "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, led by community member Sandra V.
Poe weaves a tale about a terrible plague that afflicts the land with death and great suffering. But Prince Prospero ( with allusions to The Tempest), his courtiers, and friends withdraw to an abbey, sealed to keep out the plague. They have every luxury and entertainment. An extravagant masked ball is arranged for their pleasure but unfortunately the Red Death is in the abbey among them. Eerie and topical for the current time.
Read the story online on the Poe Museum website: https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death