The Masque of the Red Death

story by Edgar Allen Poe, published May, 1842

Publication History

  • Published in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine magazine
  • Reprinted in Weird Tales magazine
  • Collected in A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen (1934)
  • Collected in The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (1960) by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in Fantasy: Shapes of Things Unknown (1974) edited by Edmund J. Farrell, John Pfordresher, Raymond J. Rodrigues, Thomas E. Gage
  • Collected in The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1983) edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg
  • Collected in The Fall of the House of Usher (1986) by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in Cinemonsters (1987) edited by Charles G. Waugh, Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg
  • Collected in Visions of Poe (1988) by Edgar Allen Poe
    • Photos by Simon Marsden
  • Collected in Tales of Mystery and Terror (1990) by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in The Best Ghost Stories (1990)
  • Collected in The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (1991) by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in Alfred Hitchcock’s Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic (1993) edited by Cathleen Jordan
  • Collected in Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1993) by Edgar Allen Poe
    • Illustrated by Larry Schwinger
  • Collected in Horror by Lamplight (1993)
  • Collected in Horrorscape (1993) edited by Gary Goshgarian
  • Collected in Tales of Horror and Mystery (1993)
  • Collected in Selected Tales (1994) by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Adapted as The Masque of the Red Death (graphic novel) (1995) by Eric Burnham
    • Collected in Weird Business (1995) edited by Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Klaw
  • Collected in Classic Ghost Stories II (1998) edited by Glen Bledsoe, Karen Bledsoe
  • Collected in Murders in the Rue Morgue & other stories (1998) by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in Selected Tales (1998) edited by David Van Leer by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (1998) by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories (1999) edited by Christopher Bigsby by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Collected in The Library of Classic Horror Stories (2001)
  • Collected in Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (2002) edited by Laura Otis
  • Reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine magazine (July, 1992)

Adaptation History

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  1. Masque of the Red Death, The (1964)
  2. Masque of the Red Death, The (1989)
  3. Masque of the Red Death, The (1990)