The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
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.
Continue readingThe “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.
Continue reading“The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an apocalyptic science fiction story first published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in December 1839.
Continue readingThere Will Come Soft Rains, a poem by Sara Teasdale
Continue readingThe Conversation of Eiros and Charmion was written in 1839, and is at least one of the first, if not the first, modern stories dealing with the destruction of all life on Earth due to an astronomical impact, in this case, a comet.
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