14 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/36/
http://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-001/

Prince Prospero confined a group of people in his own castle. Everywhere else people were attacked by the Red Death, only Prince Prospero's seclusion has not been infected. He held a masked ball one day. Everyone was enjoying the ball, but every hour, the giant ebony clock would strike and produce a sound that caused everyone to be silent until it was over. It horrified them, but they continued to enjoy the party. There were 7 rooms, from the east, blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black velvet. The black velvet room had a red bloody window. Every room has no candle light, but a fire on the tripod would light up the rooms. When it was 12 o'clock midnight. Everyone noticed a weird masked guest. He was masked like a corpse and was covered with blood. No one noticed him before. The robust prince was angry and told the people to seize this corpse. Nobody moved, because they were all afraid. This corpse walked closer and closer to the Prince who was in the blue room and into the other rooms until he went to the violet room. The Prince was angry and holding a dagger rushed to the corpse. Suddenly the corpse turned and killed the Prince. The people came to look at the corpse, but there was no one under the mask. They found that the corpse is the Red Death who came in like a thief in the night. He attacked everyone until they were all dead. Even the ebony clock died, and the flame on the tripods died out, and Darkness, Decay, and the Red Death ruled the whole place.