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Cat vs Cask
Well, IP, you may be right; I seem to remember vaguely a story entitled, I think, The Black Cat but I don't remember it much, as it isn't one of my favorites (Cask is a favorite). It certainly isn't The Masque of the Red Death; that one is about the plague or something similar if I remember correctly. Guess I'll have to have a look into my volume of Poe when I get home. Let you know tomorrow.
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inselpeter ponders: Isn't "Cask" the one with that insufferable journey deep into cellar…?
Yes. It's Mardi Gras or Carnival or some such bacchanalia, and this costumed guy leads his unwitting, besotted loan shark into the catacombs under the city streets claiming they're going to find the cask of the greatest wine ever made. The lender, between his drunken state and the borrower's masquerade, doesn't recognize his borrower and just figures he's going to get more tanked. Ends up he gets bricked into a corner and left to die.
Poe was a disturbed man. But I rather like his work.
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