Poe, ''Masque of the Red Death''

"Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/08/tick_tockboom.html

"There are some who would have thought him mad. His followers felt that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and touch him to be sure he was not." (Poe)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/08/el_266_poe-_masque_of_the_red.html

"The whole company, indeed seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed."

They now see that all of the comforts and lavishness could not stop death. Death makes no discernment from rich or poor, elation or despair. Death does not abide by any man's chosen law or decorum it has only its own and only a fool should expect otherwise.

"Sieze and unmask him - that we may know whom we have to hang, at sunrise, from the battlements!"

"Seize and unmask him - that we may know whom we have to hang, at sunrise from the battlements!"
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/08/behind_the_mask.html

"The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls . . . ."
~page 4

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/08/more_than_just_a_room.html

"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all" (pg 10).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/09/one_of_poes_best.html

"There was a sharp cry - and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet... instantly after fell the prostrate in death the Prince Prospero." p.9-10.

"And then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the voice of the clock. The dreams are stiff-frozen as they stand. But the echoes of the chime die away---they have endured but an instant---and a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart." (6-7)

"Blood was its Avatar and its seal" (pp.3)