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The Cask of Amontillado: Short Story

Edgar Allan Poe
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horror classic short story past tense first POV ~11 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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macabre obsessive ominous

A dark horror. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 15
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 20
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 70
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 40
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 0%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count2,630
Page count~11 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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