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"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him.
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Amontillado can be produced in several different manners. A fino amontillado is a wine that has begun the transformation from a fino to an amontillado, but has not been aged long enough to complete the process. Amontillado del puerto is an amontillado made in El Puerto de Santa María. Naturally dry, they are sometimes sold lightly to medium ...
"The Cask of Amontillado", Edgar Allan Poe, Godey's Lady's Book November, 1846 (begins page 29) "The Tiger of Chao-ch’êng". From Liao Chai, 1679, P’u Sung Ling. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, De La Rue, 1880 (begins page 234) "How We Arrived at the Island of Tools". From Gargantua and Pantagruel. François Rabelais, 1564 (begins ...
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) is the debut studio album by British rock band the Alan Parsons Project.It was released on 25 June 1976 in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Charisma Records [3] and 20th Century Records in the rest of the world. [4]
The inspiration for "The Cask of Amontillado" allegedly came from a story Poe had heard at Fort Independence when he was a private there in 1827, though this cannot be confirmed.[citation needed] Poe was fascinated with the inscriptions on a gravestone within the fort, specifically one marking the grave of Robert F. Massie.
In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).
In 2016, Kavalan's Solist Amontillado Sherry Single Cask Strength was named the World's Best Single Cask Single Malt Whisky in that competition. [ 12 ] In 2021, the distillery excelled in the Gold Outstanding category at the International Wines & Spirits Competition, winning all but one of the eight medals that were awarded.