THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by EDGAR ALLAN POE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontadillo is a story of revenge. A man named Montresor lures an old friend who unknowingly wronged him to sample his rare wine selection, located deep beneath his villa in old catecombs. He then chains the man to the walls and builds a wall to hide the man from any searchers.
Inspired by a legend Poe had heard while he was serving with the army in Boston.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. Today a classic short story from |
| 0:36.2 | Edgar Allan Poe which describes a revenge killing as a man named Montresor |
| 0:41.3 | deviously leads an old friend who has grievously but |
| 0:45.5 | apparently unknowingly hurt Montresor in the past and who has been drunkenly |
| 0:50.0 | enjoying a celebration into an underground wine vault in the city's catacombs for the supposed |
| 0:56.1 | purpose of providing Montresor with his expert opinion of Montresor's collection of a |
| 1:01.1 | Monteleto. The plot quickly takes shape as Montresor shackles Fortuneato to a wall in a |
| 1:07.7 | dark recess and begins putting up a new wall to hide the trapped man. |
| 1:13.0 | And here's an angle to Poe's story you probably never heard. |
| 1:16.6 | An apocryphal legend holds that the inspiration for the cask of a |
| 1:20.0 | Monteleto came from a story Poe poet heard at Castle Island, South Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1:26.4 | when he was a private station at Fort Independence in 1827. According to |
| 1:31.3 | this legend, while stationed at Castle Island, he saw a monument to |
| 1:35.5 | Lieutenant Robert Massey. Massey had been killed in a sword duel on Christmas Day |
| 1:40.5 | 1817 by Lieutenant Gustavus Drain following a dispute during a |
| 1:46.2 | card game. According to the legend other soldiers then took revenge on |
| 1:50.7 | Drain by getting him drunk, luring him into the dungeon, chaining him to a wall, and |
| 1:55.9 | sealing him in a vault. |
| 1:58.1 | This version of Drain's demise is false. |
| 2:01.5 | Drain was court-martialed for the killing and acquitted and lived until 1846. |
| 2:09.7 | The Cask of Amontolado by Edgar Allan Poe. |
| 2:14.8 | The thousand injuries of Fortuneado I had born as best could, but when he ventured upon insult, |
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