This is a strange story from what I can gather it is about a young man consumed by grief after losing his love named Lenore. We then reach one of Poe’s most famous stories the Raven. Eventually he leads to man to a niche wear he chains him and begins to build a wall closing him in and while Fortunato believes it is a joke for a while the harsh reality soon sets in but by then it is too late for him encased with only the dead for company until he himself joins them. He tempts the man with a case of rare wine amontillado and leads him down into the catacombs beneath his home all the while imploring him to return to making merry but the greedy Fortunato refuses. In this story like the tell-tale heart we meet a man who vows revenge against a man called Fortunato, however, he does this is a cunning way by not changing how he reacts to the man while he plans his demise. The next story is the cask of Amontillado which I have never heard of before in my life. However, a scream is heard by a neighbour and the police arrive shortly after and the young man in confident that they won’t find anything, but he begins to hear the heartbeat of the older man and it eventually drive him to confess, leading to position he is in at the beginning of the tale. The younger man is disturbed by the look in the older man eye and decides to kill him for it and puts weeks of planning into the event and when the time comes he kills the older man and gets rid of the body. The tell-tale heart is a story told through the perspective of a killer after the fact, we learn of a young man living with an older man neither given names. I was also surprised when I saw this for request because all the other classics have been romance based or child friendly except for this collection and Romeo and Juliet. The first story in the collection is the tell-tale heart and from the artwork on the opening page I can already tell I am going to love this art style.
As this is a collection of stories I am going to review them individually and then sum it up at the end. I have loved all the manga classics I have read so far, and I don’t expect things to change with this one.
Review: So, like my other reviews in this series I haven’t read anything by Edgar Allen Poe before although I have a vague idea of some of the stories like the tell-tale heart. Title: The Stories of Edgar Allen Poe (Manga Classics)Īuthor: Stacey King, Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia-Nitouhei (Art “The Tell-Tale Heart”), Chagen (Art “The Cask of Amontillado”), Uka Nagao (Art “The Masque… Read Death”), pikomaro (Art “The Raven”), Linus Liu (Art “Fall of the House of Usher”), Man Yiu (Art “Fall of the House of Usher”)
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