Fear and helplessness can provoke different emotions from different kinds of people, in different situations. “The Masque of the Red Death”, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a pestilence that is spreading in a fictional land, the disease resembles one of today formally known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It might be said that “The Masque of the Red Death” was based on a mixture of the concepts of Ebola and the Black Death (Bubonic plague), which reigned terror in the fourteenth century;…