“The telltale heart and the masque of a red death” both are short stories written by Edgar Allan. They both are some way similar and some way different as well. Those Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of the Red Death both tackle those subjects of death, sin, and guilt showing in very different ways. In the telltale heart is about a criminal who assassination an old man, just to his blue colored eyes. The masque of red death is about disease pledge. Poe refers red death to the disease pledge. The story about a mad king, when pledge strike in his town, he turns his back to his own people and leave them as they are not their people. Yet, there are some similarities in both. Time, for instance, both murders happened at midnight. Both are killers,
