The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Published 2004 · 129 pages · 35,475 words · about 1 hour at an average pace
How hard is The Masque of the Red Death to read?
The Masque of the Red Death scores 13 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.