In Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Masque of the Red Death”, Poe portrays an enigmatic and secluded castle populated by ingenuous victims; this setting conveys the inauspicious mood that creates suspense for all to experience. Throughout the short story, Poe depicts a setting that articulates a progressive, overall mood of fright and mysteriousness. In the beginning, the author introduces a musky environment consisting of the prevalent and alarming “Red Death.” Poe begins to delineate the setting as he wrote, “There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores with dissolution.” Poe established the setting with the description of the pestilence; this initiated the mood of fear. As the story proceeds, the author commenced
