Edgar Allen Poe vs Stephen King

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upon his anger. When they are deep enough into the cellar and Fortunato is drunk enough, Montresor entombs him and lays a brick wall to seal him in. “He is an ignoramus," interrupted my friend, as he stepped unsteadily forward, while I followed immediately at his heels. In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered. A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite. In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it. He was too much astounded to resist. Withdrawing the key I stepped back from the recess.” (Poe 114) Similarly King uses this same element in his short story Just After Sunset. In King’s story, the main character Curtis has a archrival, Grunwald. Both characters hate each other and Grunwald ...

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