The Cask of the Amtillado

Edgar Allan Poe

1809-1849In the 20 years of Poe’s writing career, he wrote more than 400 stories, poems, and critical reviews.

“All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary”

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality”

Poe’s biological mother and father were both travelling actors

His father deserted the family very early in Poe’s infancy

Poe’s mother died before he was the age of three

The wealthy Allan family took Poe in as a foster child and raised him into young adulthood.

Poe was very intelligent and athletic throughout high school

Mr. Allen didn’t approve of Poe’s literary ambitions and once he was caught gambling cut him of altogether.

Poe is known as the father of the horror and gothic genres.

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The Cask of the Amontillado

Thought to be one of the most significant of Poe’s stories.

Wanted to “reveal the dark truths found within the depths of humanity”

Set in Italian catacombs, where the dead are buried and also where fine wine, such as Amontillado, is stored