![]() Poe published “The Cask of Amontillado” almost twenty years later in November 1846. He, the teller of the tale, narrates the story of his killing Fortunato fifty years before. According to the legend that Poe heard, his friends then took revenge on the killer of Massie by getting him drunk, luring him to a secluded place in the Fort, and then sealing him alive behind a wall. Character Sketch of Monstresor : The very name ‘ Monstresor’ means ‘my treasure’. Lieutenant Robert Massie was killed in a duel on Castle Island, on Christmas Day, over a card game in 1817. ![]() The man then bricks him up alive, behind a wall, for some unnamed insult, where he dies.Ĭreepy, right? Well Poe, maybe, spun his tale from a story he heard while in the Army, stationed at Southie’s own Fort Independence in 1827. ![]() ![]() If you’ve taken high school English, I’m sure you’ve read Bostonian Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” In case you don’t remember the basics, let me refresh you: in an unnamed Italian city, one man lures another to a basement with the promise of a cask (barrel) of Amontillado (sherry). ![]()
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