Today’s short story is Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” a fantastic ... Poe writes: The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon ...

He lures rival nobleman Fortunato into his wine cellar with the promise of a cask of Amontillado wine, only to chain him up and wall him in deep within the reaches of the catacombs. Even decades ...

Set in an unnamed Italian city, it follows a man named Montresor who invites his friend Fortunato down to his family vaults, presumably to sample a cask of amontillado. But as is always the ...

This murder method comes directly from one of Poe's most famed short stories, "The Cask of Amontillado." In it, narrator Montresor lures his rival Fortunato to his wine cellars to show him a cask ...

As anyone who has read Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado may have guessed, it’s revealed that the two used Fortunato Pharmaceuticals’ 1980 New Year’s Eve party as a way to lure ...

“The Cask of Amontillado” might seem an unlikely ... and the prospect of literal wall-building Turning Montresor and Fortunato into a couple of bros makes the entire scenario feel funnier ...