Question

The "Red Death" had long devastated
the country. No pestilence had ever
been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was
its Avatar and its seal—the redness and
the horror of blood. There were sharp
pains, and sudden dizziness, and then
profuse bleeding at the pores, with
dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the
body and especially upon the face of
the victim, were the pest ban which shut
him out from the aid and from the
sympathy of his fellow-men. And the
whole seizure, progress and termination
of the disease, were the incidents of
half an hour.

(from “The Masque of Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe)

Answer 1

this is the masque of red death