Gothic horror, a genre of death and supernatural activity at least Edgar Allen Poe uses it in his story “Masque Of The Red Death”. How Poe uses death and supernatural occurrences in his story to prove that you can't escape or prevent death. In “The Masque Of The Red Death” Edgar used the gothic horror characteristics to explain no one can escape or prevent death.
The inclusion of Death seems to be a common topic in Poe's stories. In the story “The Masque Of The Red Death” Poe utilizes death to a minimum but makes it feel like a maximum because he explains the death so well. Poe describes his death with “a sharp cry -- and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate