![]() ![]() Leading readers there, the narrator relates a mysterious, horrifying story from his past. Poe sets most of the story in the gloomy underground tomb of a European aristocrat, far from the familiar United States. The story’s focus-revenge-and its climactic scene-burial of a living man-were chosen in part to fit the American reader’s appetite. Written in an era that valued sensational subjects, “The Cask of Amontillado” is a perfect example of this link to America. ![]() ![]() A short story set in the 1700s or early 1800s in Italy or France published in 1846.Īn aristocrat lures his enemy into an underground passageway with an offer of rare wine and buries him alive there.Įvents in History at the Time the Short Story Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Short Story Was WrittenĮdgar Allan Poe’s horror stories have always been associated with his own tragic life, but they are also closely tied to American popular culture in the 1800s. ![]()
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