The Masque of the Red Death

  In my class this October we are learning about Poe's writings like the Raven and House of Usher but today I'm talking about the Masque of the Red Death but in all honesty I don't understand any of his writings because they are to hard to read for me and I don't like book all that much mostly the ones that have all that fancy crap in theme. Just tell me the  story straight and simple.
  But because I had to read it I would say the book is talking about a plague or some type of demon sweeping the land of the living and killing all that git in its way. The central idea of the book I believe is that a prince in the dark land has set up a party for thous not infected by the terrible curse and he thinks he is safe from it hold up in his castle with his guests but it turns out he is wrong.
  Poe's Characters are not really clear and many are not named but some like the price have theme but that's not what the question was about what make his character clear is wean he is about to revel something terrible. 

I do not recommend reading this book unless you really like reading that sort of thing.