[Mark McDonnell]

Excellent! Well done Duncan. Double weirdly, I read 'Dolan's Cadillac' recently. Good story. I like a bit of Stephen King on my holidays. The Poe I've read many times.

[Martin Elster]

Hi Duncan,

I read “Dolan’s Cadillac” a few years ago and loved it. It’s an engrossing and clever tale. I just read “The Cask of Amontillado” and enjoyed it, too. I can see how Poe influenced Stephen King. I’m going to read your whole essay in a bit.

There is another King work that took off form Robert Browning’s “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.” Kings series of novels is called simply The Dark Tower.

[Max Goodman]

I haven't read the King story, but it seems to me that a large part of the horror in the Poe is the ambiguity of Fortunato's crimes. Whatever they are, it's pretty clear he didn't murder Montressor's wife. I can't say I see much of a point of writing a version in which the reader cheers for the guy doing the killing.