Cask of Amontillado, the (1846) [Short Story]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Summary
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In this tale of revenge set in the catacombs of Italy, a man leads his intended victim through his family wine cellars with the promise of a taste of the rare Amontillado.
Originally published in Godey's Lady's Book, November 1846.
Reprinted in:
- Book of the Dead (1986)
- The Fall of the House of Usher, Target 1986
- The Book of Fantasy
- The Gold-Bug and Other Tales, Dover 1991
- Horrorscape, ed. Gary Goshgarian, Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. 1993
- Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Putnam/Grosset & Dunlap 1993
- Selected Tales, Penguin/Godfrey Cave 1994
- Horror Stories, ed. Susan Price, Kingfisher 1995
- Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al, ed. Alan Maitland, Viking Penguin Canada 1996
- Murders in the Rue Morgue & Other Stories, Pulp Fictions UK 1998
- Selected Tales, Oxford University Press 1998
- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, Penguin/Signet Classic 1998
Original title: The Cask of Amontillado
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Crime/Caper
Fiction→ Horror→ General
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, Jorge Luis Borges
, G. K. Chesterton
, Thomas Carlyle
, Guy de Maupassant
, Francois Rabelais
, Evelyn Waugh
, Petronius Arbiter
, Saki
, B. Traven
, W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Perowne
, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
, Edward Lucas White
, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
, Walter de la Mare
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, I. A. Ireland
, May Sinclair
, Jean Cocteau
, Juan Manuel
, Silvina Ocampo
, Léon Bloy
, Giovanni Papini
, Adolfo Bioy Casares
, Leonid Andreyev
, John Aubrey
, Tor Ĺge Bringsvaerd
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, Chuang Tzu
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, Alexandra David-Neel
, Macedonio Fernández
, James George Frazer
, Elena Garro
, Herbert A. Giles
, Leopoldo Lugones
, Edwin Morgan
, H. A. Murena
, Niu Chiao
, Carlos Peralta
, Manuel Peyrou
, P'u Sung Ling
, W. W. Skeat
, Emanuel Swedenborg
, Juan Rudolfo Wilcock
, Richard Wilhelm
, G. Willoughby-Meade
, Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
, Auguste Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
, Wu Ch'Eng En
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, H. P. Lovecraft
, Roald Dahl
, August Derleth
, Robert Bloch
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Robert Silverberg
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Evan Hunter
, John Jakes
, Edmond Hamilton
, Frank Gruber
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, James Joyce
, John Steinbeck
, Mark Twain
, Luigi Pirandello
, Jack London
, Lord Dunsany
, Guy de Maupassant
, Saki
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, F. Marion Crawford
, Elizabeth Gaskell
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, Perceval Landon
, Margaret Oliphant
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, Carter Dickson
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