Setting is crucial in qualifying Gothic literature; typically there is a gloominess
with death and decay evident. From the opening sentences, we are presented with a gruesome death
that is gripping the land:
The Red Death had long
devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its
Avatar and its sealthe redness and the horror of blood.
The action begins with the background of death, one that is quite fatal and hideous.
The seventh apartment, which is the most clearly described, is hung in black velvet tapestries,
and the window panes are a deep, blood-red color. Fires provide the light for the chambers, and
in the seventh room, this provides quite the gruesome :
In the western or black chamber the effect of the firelight that streamed upon the dark hangings
through the blood-tinted panes, was ghastly in the extreme, and produced so wild a look upon the
countenances of those who entered, that there were few of the company bold...
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