The Cask of Amontillado
2018, watercolor. Two illustrations to accompany the short story by Edgar Allen Poe:The Cask of Amontillado.
“Ignorance”
Fortunato, drunk and oblivious, is lured into the catacombs. He does not see the truth about Montresor.
“Cognizance”
Now trapped in the wall, Fortunato is involuntarily detoxing.
When I first read the story as a youth, contemplating Fortunato’s final hours within the wall yielded great fascination and horror.