The Red Masque of the Red Death

  Having read a quite suggestive title of the story I associated it at once with some disastrous and terrible happenings in the life of the main personages. Undoubtedly, my expectations were confirmed if not even surpassed.  Death, Horror, Blood, Inevitability, Darkness, Hollowness...The head is spinning because of all these mystical unearthly matters.  However, the challenge is accepted. No steps back.

   Edgar Allan Poe thoroughly elaborated the setting of the story. A  "crenellated abbey ", an "extensive and magnificent structure ", an isolated palace  is the place where the events take place in the story. Having been in seclusion for 5 or 6 months in the realm of Beauty and Wealth, people completely forgot about the outer world with its' hazards and sufferings. Those six luxurious chambers substituted the whole Universe for the prince and his devoted knights and dames of the court. But...What was there in the seventh room? What was patiently waiting for such a life-thirsty company there?What mysteries were hidden in that fantastical residence of Red and Black?