In class we read the chilling tale of The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allen Poe. Without reading the short story you can tell what kind of genre and atmosphere are contained in the story by simply looking at the authors name. Edgar always wrote in the horror genre using creepy and gloomy atmospheres to emphasise the events of the story and give the reader goosebumps. An example would be in the Cask of Amontillado when he takes Fortunato down to the catacmobs(graveyard under a house/palace) and tricks a drunk Fortunato into climbing in to a wall. (A.K.A Fortunato's tomb)Montressor locked him in and sealed the doorway with bricks! how much more creepy deos it get!
Even though the story was written back in the early 1800's, it still gives me the creeps, but in a good way. Edgar Allen Poe was a writer that caught my attention on grade 8 when my teacher read to us The Raven. The Raven is such a powerful poem, his writing technique threw me off guard, giving the raven a voice that slowly drove the man insane, and really gave me goosebumps, and interest. After I heard that story I asked him if I could borrow the book he was reading from to read for myself, that piqued my interest in Edgar and all of his works. I've never heard of The cask of Amontillado because when I did my research for various projects I was always searching his poems, not short stories. Now I have a whole new field to look up and I'm looking forward to reading many many more of his works.
(The picture at the top is of Montressor (left) sealing Fortunato(right) into his tomb for all of eternity)
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