Historias De Terror En Ingles

The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
The "Red Death" had devastated the country for a long time. Never plague was so terrible and so awful. Blood was incarnation and his seal: the red and the horror of blood. It began with sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and then bled pores and must die. Scarlet spots on the body and face of the victim were the party of the plague, which isolated it fromthe aid and sympathy of the whole, and invasion, and progress to meet the disease in half an hour.
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were semidespoblados called his side a thousand knights and dames of his court, and retired with them to secure closure of one of his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure and was createdby the eccentric but majestic like the prince. A solid wall and the high circled. The doors of the wall were iron. Once inside, the courtiers brought furnaces and heavy hammers and welded the bolts. They had resolved to leave no means of entry or exit to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance tocontagion. The outside world to fend on their own; meanwhile was crazy grieve. The prince had gathered everything for pleasure. There were buffoons, improvisers, dancers and musicians had beauty and wine. All these and security were on the inside. Outside was the Red Death.

On the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and when the plague was the most terrible havoc, Prince Prospero entertained histhousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.

That was a picture masquerade voluptuous, but let them describe the salons before where they celebrated. There were seven, a series stays imperial. In most palaces, halls succession forms a straight long gallery, as the double doors open to be attached to the walls, allowing the light to reach the entire gallery. But here wassomething very different, as expected the prince's love for the bizarre. The rooms were arranged with such irregularity that vision could not cover more than one at a time. Every twenty or thirty yards was a sudden turn, and each one was born a new effect. To right and left, in the middle of the wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window looked out onto a closed corridor which followed the contours of thenumber of rooms. The windows were stained glass whose color varied with the dominant tone of the decor of the room. If, for example, the eastern extremity of the chamber had blue upholstery, vividly blue were its windows. The second stay boasted purple hangings and ornaments, and here the windows were purple. The third was entirely green, and so the crystals. The fourth was furnished and lightedwith orange hue, the fifth with white, the sixth violet. The seventh room appeared completely covered in black velvet tapestries that covered the ceiling and the walls, falling in folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber the color of the windows did not match the decor. The crystals were scarlet, had a blood color.

Despite the profusion of golden ornaments thatappeared here and there or hung from the ceiling, in those seven rooms had no lamps or chandeliers. The cameras were lit with candles or spiders. But in the corridors parallel to the gallery, and opposite to each window, stood heavy tripods supporting a fiery brazier whose rays are projected through the tinted windows and brightly lit each stay. Produced in this way many splendors as alive as fantastic.But in the chamber of the west, the Black Chamber, the fire through the colored glasses of blood poured over the dark hangings, produced a terribly sinister effect, and gave a strange color to the faces of those she penetrated that few were bold enough to set foot there. In this room, against the west wall, rested a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung resonate with a dull, heavy,...