Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato by playing on his friend's vanity and love of wine. In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known tales of horror, "The Cask of he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing,. The Cask of Amontillado (by Edgar Allen Poe). But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts." said he.. The Cask of Amontillado (1846) is considered by some critics the finest of all Poes tales Cobb County Government of horror (Poe 3:1252) and it is a fine example of his later. Poe, "The Cask of (1846). Preliminaries:

(a) words, Latin; Paris catacombs (b) Poe: life, aims (Geddes, 271-2); Poe on the web. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. The Cask of Amontillado Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

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