It was a pest causing aches, stains on the body and bleeding. It didn`t take more than an hour before infected man died. Prince Prospero was happy, dauntless and clever. He gathered thousand friends among all of his court knights and dames. Then, he and his company went to one of his monasteries. Along with them were many musicians, ballet-dancers, and comedians. All of them were safely inside, while outside was the “Red Death”. At the end of the fifth month of this isolation Prince Prospero organized a grand fancy-dressed ball. It was held in seven beautiful rooms – an imperial suite. Every room had different colour and windows were made of stained glass. Every window was same colour like the room. The first room was blue colour, the second room was purple, the third room was all green, fourth room was orange, the fifth white and the sixth was violet. The seventh room was all black and it was the only room, where the colour of windows was different from the colour of room. The windows were dark bloody red. Behind every window burnt a flame which projected coloured light through the window into the room. Fiery light in this room terrified everybody who entered the room. Near the west wall stood the hugh ebony clock. Their ticking was so loud that the musicians couldn`t play any longer. But when the clock stopped, the party carried on and everyone was happy again. When the clock began to strike midnight, what last twelve strokes and it`s longer then before, visitors began to have more thoughts. Last strokes still lasted and some of them noticed a person in mask that evoked first surprise, but later horror and disgust. This mask reminded the “Red Death“, so much, that Prince Prospero, who was very angry with it wanted to hang the person wearing it. When he ordered this, he was in the blue room. But nobody moved. The mask went by slowly steps through the blue room to the purple – through the purple to the green – through the green to the orange – through this again to the white – and through this one he came to the violet and then to the black. The Prince Prospero ran through six rooms to the seventh, but nobody dared to follow him. They met in the black room, where Prince Prospero tried to kill the mask with a dagger, but it was him who fell dead on the black carpet. After that everybody realized, that “Red Death“ is among them. One by one they fell dead on the floor too and the life of the ebony clock went out.