"Hop Frog" and "The Cask of amontillado" are old-world stories of revenge.
"Selections From Poe"
J. Montgomery Gambrill
These tales represent various grades of the frightful and the ghastly, from the mere bug-a-boo story like the Black Cat, which makes children afraid to go in the dark, up to the breathless terror of the Cask of amontillado, or the Red Death.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
The Cask of amontillado.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers