#the cat of amontillado

[trek-tracks]

She just sat contented in the comfy chair as I built this up around her

I call this installation “The Cat of Amontillado.”

[kaitiedidslibrary]

Book 39, for the prompt "non-human protagonist"

This is another one I got free on the Kindle. I am wondering if everything offered free is a little misleading in it's description? Like the description give this setting of a "world torn apart by vampires, zombies, sidhe, and gods" where a murder has happened, and a shape-shifting man named Mr Poe is on the case.

This doesn't take place in a supernaturally ravaged world, it's set in a pocket dimension immortal retirement village/resort where everyone is dating each other, I guess.

And Mr Poe isn't a man, like the description says.

He's a five-month-old kitten turned child.

Despite feeling a little deceived, it wasn't too bad.

It very much felt like an "I'm having fun" book where it's not taking itself seriously at all. Parts of it felt like characters in a silly D&D campaign, with characters like Penny the Vampire Orc Blacksmith.

I did like the way Mr Poe's perspective was written most of the time. "A feline as noble as me" gives the regal cat vibes.

I liked that when he took on human form, his skin actually matched his cat form. Most people I've seen write black cat shifters go the "edgelord brooding black-haired route". To have him actually have "bare skin as black as his fur" was really cool.

And the scene where he comforts Catherine about her husband's death was actually really sweet and touching. This is why cats are the best. 😤

Actually, every scene where he was clearly a cat wearing a human disguise made me smile. It was such a fun concept.

There were a couple things I had an issue with.

For such a short book, I feel like it shouldn't have continuity errors. Like at the beginning, he had straight hair, and seven pages later had "curls not as soft" as the blacksmith's.

The other thing was this is a kitten. Born and raised in what seems to be a very open and non-judgmental world. But somehow, right out the womb, he's slutshamming his cat mom??

"Her kits looked to be the result of trysts with three different fathers- none of whom were ever around, I might add- and I've never needed that kind of negative influence in my life."

And saying these things to women??

"My name is a prize to be won instead of offered to any harlot who asks for it."

He also commented on several women's breasts. Quite a few times.

Like bro?? You're five months old, who taught you this 😭 Or is the author insinuating that all cats are inherently misogynistic in this world?

Overall, it was a short and silly read, where the murder wasn't the focus. It was more of an introduction of a character to the colorful cast of this world, which is fine, just again, not what I was expecting.

It was cute for what it was, I just won't read any of the others unless they're free again.

⭐⭐⭐

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Poe - art by Greg Hildebrandt (1986)

[noovorous]

I'm lucky to be experiencing prose of Edgar Allan Poe for the first time those days and it strikes me how precise his macabre tales are. How much they are like an essence of a novel, crystalised form of prose just like haiku is of poetry. A complete story, each with it's own characteristic mood, atmosphere, feel, all within more or less ten pages. I know immediately that I will be returning to individual short stories when under influence of a certain caprice, something that is much harder to achieve when looking for a specific paragraph of a novel.

[cheeriobuffet]

The Cat Treats of Amontillado

[rejectedfables]

I'd follow someone into a basement and get bricked up in a wall for a readable english translation of 2ha's later chapters

[transprincecaspian]

m e o w !!!

[tinnitusdiaries]

The Cat of Amontillado

[hyp3r4ct1v3-h0rn3tz]

fortunato from the cask of amontillado and the unnamed wife from the black cat should be frieends. in my persinal opinion

[technicallyeldritch]

i don't think we talk enough about how many edgar allen poetagonists kill people and just. shove them behind a surface in their house. it's happened three times.

[shapesintheklouds]

I got some new markers for my birthday so I spent my days off doing some illustrations :D

[trek-tracks]

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[lauralot89]

Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat also ends up having a person behind a wall, but that story's Montresor-equivalent gets fucked over by a cat and it's amazing

why is Cask of Amontillado the meme one

[a-deed-without-a-name]

Every single time I empty out this laundry basket, this little idiot climbs in and he’s just so damn proud of himself.

And every single time, he forgets...

...it has a drawstring.

[un-monstre]

I liked “The Black Cat” well enough, but a little part of my brain says that it’s but “The Cask of Amontillado” if it were played straight. And I do prefer “Amontillado” because of the humor element.

[cheeriobuffet]

Montresor! For the love of god!