Most people prefer not to discuss the inevitable - death - but alas, it visits us all in due course. I find myself in a particularly sombre phase at present, which invariably leads me to peruse my cherished collection of Poe's works. Last week, my father received the devastating news that he has inoperable, terminal … Continue reading Death’s Grand Masquerade: The Ironic Revelry in Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death