Image PDF - tale pages (issue pp. 257-259)
Pages 5-7 of the received PDF (issue pp. 257-259). The poem 'Spring's Advent' by Park Benjamin begins at the foot of the final page.
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The Mask of the Red Death - Graham's Magazine, May 1842
First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's tale 'The Mask of the Red Death' (later 'The Masque of the Red Death').
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The tale's first appearance in print, in the May 1842 Graham's Magazine (issue pp. 257-259), under the original title 'The Mask of the Red Death.'
- Date
- 1842-05
- Credits
- Edgar Allan Poe (author)
- Publisher
- George R. Graham — Graham's Magazine
- Where to find it
- 3 tale pages (issue pp. 257-259); complete issue is 54 scanned pages
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- Internet Archive
AI-assisted transcription produced by Claude and visually checked against this Internet Archive scan; no independent human proofread. Line wraps, two-column breaks, running heads and page numbers removed for reading; the original 1842 title 'The Mask of the Red Death' and edition wording (including the interchangeable 'duke'/'prince', 'castellated abbeys', 'Hernani', 'rôle') retained. The scan remains authoritative for exact typography and faint punctuation.
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Original scan - complete issue (Graham's, May 1842)
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No independent human proofread. Line wraps, column breaks, running heads and page numbers regularized for reading; edition wording and spelling retained. The scan remains authoritative for exact typography.
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Poe, Edgar Allan. 'The Mask of the Red Death.' Graham's Magazine, vol. 20, no. 5 (May 1842): 257-259.
Public domain. First published in the United States in May 1842; copyright long expired. Internet Archive scan of a public-domain serial.
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