The Masque of the Red Death as a fantasy genre American author Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) wrote many poems and short stories in the 1800s. Some say that Poe practically created the detective novel and perfected the psychological thriller. These works include “The Raven,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Fall of Usher House,” and “The Masque of the Red Death” (30 April 1842). In the fantasy story Poe uses some magical elements that are not accepted by the reader as real. Since these magical elements are not accepted by the reader as real, this story is an example of the fantasy genre and is not part of magical realism, because in magical realism the unreal elements are accepted as real by both the reader and the characters in the story. .In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allen Poe has the ability to evoke imagery and textualize the reader through “extensive use of detail” (Faris 169). In this way, I believe Poe achieves textualization for the reader because we as humans tend to use our imagination to help us see things that are there when they are described to us in great detail. Using this ability, it feels like we are part of the book and not just reading it. In the following passage Poe describes the rooms found in Prince Prospero's abbey:The east end was enormous, for example, in azure, and of a vivid blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the glass was purple. The third was completely green, as were the windows. The fourth was decorated and lit in orange, the fifth in white, the sixth in purple. (483)After barely describing the fifth... half of the paper... as real by both the reader and the characters in the story, this story still remains an example of Fantastic Literature and not a part of Magical Realism because the unreal it is not accepted by the reader as real. Works Cited Faris, Wendy B. "Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction." Magical realism: history, theory, community. Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham, North Carolina and London, England: Duke University Press, 1995. 163-189.Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Mask of the Red Death." The works of Edgar Allen Poe. Ann Arbor, MI: State Street Press. 482-487.Simpkins, Scott. "Sources of Magical Realism / Supplement to Realism in Latin American Fiction." Magical realism: history, theory, community. Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham, North Carolina and London, England: Duke University Press, 1995. 145-159.