{"product_id":"la-mascara-de-la-muerte-roja-y-otros-cuentos-goticos-the-mask-of-the-red-death-and-other-stories","title":"La Máscara de la Muerte Roja Y Otros Cuentos Góticos \/ The Mask of the Red Death and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eLlega a nuestra colección Penguin Clásicos Góticos una cuidada selección de los cuentos más fascinantes del maestro del terror Edgar Allan Poe. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEsta terrorífica selección de cuentos recibe el nombre de uno de los relatos más referenciados y adaptados del autor: La máscara de la muerte roja, una alegoría sobre la inevitabilidad de la muerte. Junto a otros tan espeluznantes como El corazón delator o La caída de la casa Usher, completamos esta preciosa edición que ya forma parte de nuestra colección Penguin Clásicos Góticos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1842, \u003ci\u003eThe Mask of the Red Death\u003c\/i\u003e by Edgar Allan Poe is an allegorical short story in the gothic horror vein. It is the 15th century. An unidentified country is infected with a contagion known as the Red Death. Half the population has succumbed to a quick, gory, and painful death. Prospero, the prince, deals with the situation by inviting a thousand of his people to revel with him in a palace designed with seven rooms located in a secluded abbey. Each of the rooms, which are arranged east to west, are decorated with a monochromatic color scheme, and lit only by a brazier in the hallway which casts light through a stained-glass window. The last room to the west is decorated in black and contains a large clock that strikes heavily on the hour with a tone that stops the musicians from playing and the dancers in their tracks. As the midnight hour approaches, a tall figure enters, wearing a funeral shroud and a mask resembling the countenance of a corpse. All are terrified; some seek to fend off the intruder, to no avail. They discover there is nothing beneath his robes and mask. And then....","brand":"Penguin Clasicos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48617043755213,"sku":"9788491057659","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_1dd05db0-4279-49cc-b501-696925e100b1.jpg?v=1787338227","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/la-mascara-de-la-muerte-roja-y-otros-cuentos-goticos-the-mask-of-the-red-death-and-other-stories","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}