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Edgar Allan Poe — “The Cask of Amontillado”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — 1846 — no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01

Reprints:
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — November 14, 1846 — New England Weekly Review (reprinted from Text 02) (noted by Ljungquist)
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co.
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:274-282)
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:167-175, and 6:294)
  • "The Cask of Amontillado" — April 1951 — Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine  (New York, NY) (vol 17, no 89)  (This is a pulp magazine, bearing the subtitle: "An Anthology of the Best Detective Stories, New and Old." A blurb on the cover notes that the issues contains "stories by the eight best mystery writers of all time, as ranked by the Gallup poll." The eight names are: Erle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rex Stout, and Dashiell Hammett. It is curious that in this case, the magazine selected a Poe tale which is not, in any technical sense, a mystery story and certainly not a detective story.)
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — Nov.-Dec. 1952 — Fantastic, vol. 1, no. 3  (a pulp science fiction quarterly, with illustrations)
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1252-1266)

Associated Material and Special versions:

  • “[The Cask of Amontillado]” — 1855 — Fortaellinger [Tales] (Copenhagen)  (Danish translation, noted by Anderson, p. 14)
  • “La tonne d'Amontillado” — December 6, 1855 — Le Mousquetaire  (French Translation by W. L. Hughes)
  • “La barrique d'amontillado” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
  • “[The Cask of Amontillado]” — 1882 — Valda noveller (Stockholm)  (Swedish translation, noted by Anderson, p. 54)
  • “La tonne d'amontillado” — 1885 — Oeuvres Choisies d'Edgar Pöe, Paris: A. Hennuyer  (French translation by William L. Hughes)
  • “Het Vat Amontillado” — about 1930 — Fantastische Vertellingen van Edgar Allan Poe, Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon (Dutch translation by Machiel Elias Barentz, with elaborate illustrations by Albert Hahn, somewhat reminiscent of those by Harry Clarke)
  • "The Cask of Amontillado" — April 9, 1944 — a radio show broadcast on The Weird Circle show. (As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe's works, the story has been modified.)
  • "The Cask of Amontillado" — June 1951 — Classics Illustrated (number 84)  (a comic-book)
  • "The Cask of Amontillado" — January 19, 1953 — a radio show broadcast on The Hall of Fantasy show, introduced as "dedicated to the supernatural, the unusual and the unknown."  (This episode is available on CD as part of a 6-CD set of "Smithsonian Legendary Performers," issued in 2004. As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe's works, the story has been modified.)













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Bibliography:
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  • Anderson, Carl L., Poe in Northlight: The Scandanavian Response to His Life and Work, Durham, NC: Duke Unversity Press, 1973.
  • Appel, Alfred, Jr., "Three Observations on 'Amontillado' and Lolita," Poe Newsletter (December 1972), 5:51.
  • Bales, Kent, "Poetic Justice in 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Poe Newsletter (December 1972), 5:51.
  • Benton, Richard P., "The Phantom Listener in 'The Cask of Amontillado'; or, 'Is There Anybody There?'," Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany, ed. Benjamin F. Fisher, Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2006, pp. 115-132
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  • Brown, Arthur A., 'A Man Who Dies': Poe, James, Faulkner and the Narrative Function of Death, PhD disseration, University of California, Davis, 1995
  • Campbell, Killis, "Three Notes on Poe," American Literature (January 1933), 4:385-388.
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  • Clark, George P., "Three Observations on 'Amontillado' and Lolita," Poe Newsletter (December 1972), 5:51.
  • Dedmond, Francis B., "An Additional Source of Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Notes & Queries (May 10, 1952), 197:212-214.
  • Dedmond, Francis B., " 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the War of the Literati," Modern Language Notes (1954), 15:137-146.
  • Del Vecchio, Rosa Maria, "Into that Material Nihility": Poe's Criminal Persona as God-Peer, PhD disseration, Case Western University, 1994
  • Doxey, William S., "Concerning Fortunato's 'Courtesy'," Studies in Short Fiction (Spring 1967), 4:266-267.
  • Engel, Leonard W., "Victim and Victimizer: Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Interpretations (1983), 15:26-30.
  • Foote, Dorothy N., " 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Explicator (November 1961), vol. 20, item 27.
  • Fossum, Richard H., "Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Explicator (November 1958), vol. 17, item 16.
  • Freehafer, John, "Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado': A Tale of Effect," Jahrbuch fur Amerikanstudien (1968), 13:134-142.
  • Gargano, James W., " 'The Cask of Amontillado': A Masquerade of Motive and Identity," Studies in Short Fiction (Winter 1967), 4:119-126.
  • Goldhurst, William, "Three Observations on 'Amontillado' and Lolita," Poe Newsletter (December 1972), 5:51.
  • Harris, Kathryn Montgomery, "Ironic Revenge in Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Studies in Short Fiction (1969), 6:333-336.
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Hirsch, David, Poe as Moralist: "The Cask of Amontillado" and the Transvaluation of Values, Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1998.
  • Ljungquist, Kent P., "Some Unrecorded Reprints of Poe's Works," ANQ (Winter 1995), 8:20-22.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Randall, John H., "Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Code of the Duello," Studia Germanica Gandensia (1963), 5:175-184.
  • Rasor, C. L., "Possible Sources of 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Furman Studies (Winter 1949), 31:46-50.
  • Rea, J., "In Defense of Fortunato's Courtesy," Studies in Short Fiction (Spring 1967), 4:267-269.
  • Rea, J., "Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Studies in Short Fiction (1966), 4:57-69.
  • Rocks, James E., "Conflict and Motive in 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Poe Newsletter (December 1972), 5:51.
  • Shick, Joseph, "The Origin of 'The Cask of Amontillado'," American Literature (March 1934), 6:18-21. (A response to Schick's article, by James Pole, appears in the same issue.)
  • Snow, Edward R., "The Roving Skeleton of Boston Bay," Yankee (Dublin, New Hampshire) (April 1961), 25:52-55 and 109-110.
  • Solomont, Susan and Ritchie Darling, Four Stories by Poe, Norwich, VT: Green Knight Press, 1965
  • Sorenson, Peter J., "William Morgan, Free Masonry, and 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Poe Studies (1989), 22:45-47.
  • Steele, Charles W., Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Explicator (April 1960), vol. 18, item 43.
  • Strepp, Wlater, "The Ironic Double in Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'," Studies in Short Fiction (1976), 13:447-453.
  • Waterman, Arthur E., "Point of View in Poe," College English Association Critic (1965), 27:5.
  • White, Patrick, " 'The Cask of Amontillado': The Case for the Defense," Studies in Short Fiction (1989), 26:550-555.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.





 
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