<Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print (Magazine) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> November 1846 </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" (a. mon. ti. ˈʝa. ðo)) is a short story by 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 in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him . Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th - century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive--in this case, by immurement . As in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell - Tale Heart", Poe conveys the story from the murderer's perspective . </P> <P> The story's narrator, Montresor, tells an unspecified person, who knows him very well, of the day he took his revenge on Fortunato (Italian for "the fortunate one"), a fellow nobleman . Angry over numerous injuries and some unspecified insult, Montresor plots to murder his "friend" during Carnival, while the man is drunk, dizzy, and wearing a jester's motley . </P>

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