What does the seventh room and its furnishing look like?

One of Poe's most well-known short stories, "The Masque of the Red Death" is an atmospheric tale that owes much of its dramatic impact to the lavish descriptions of the setting in Prince Prospero's castle. The prince invites a number of wealthy guests to an elaborate party and has seven chambers decorated in seven different colors. The windows, walls and furnishings of each room are all one single color, and they are, in order of...

One of Poe's most well-known short stories, "The Masque of the Red Death" is an atmospheric tale that owes much of its dramatic impact to the lavish descriptions of the setting in Prince Prospero's castle. The prince invites a number of wealthy guests to an elaborate party and has seven chambers decorated in seven different colors. The windows, walls and furnishings of each room are all one single color, and they are, in order of how guests may explore them, blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black.

The final room, the one with black walls and draperies, has one additional color in its furnishings: blood red. In the other rooms, the windows are all the same color as the walls and furniture. But in the seventh black room, the windows are stained a deep blood red color, and this symbolizes the Red Death, the deadly plague which "waits" just outside the castle walls. The other feature that makes this room different from the other six is that the previous rooms have no candles or lamps for illumination. The seventh room has a brazier of fire that illuminates the blood red windows. Upon entering and seeing this room, the guests are frightened. The color of the firelight reflected from the windows "produced so wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered, that there were few of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all."