The Cask Of Amontillado

One of my high school English teachers (none other than Wally Lamb, who in the late '90s had 2 books he wrote make Oprah's Book Club...!), in order to get our class's attention to what was still the "modern-day" appeal of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of suspense and terror, has us examine the lyrics to this particular song by a band most of us knew from their one major hit song, "Eye in the Sky". Whether we as a class as a whole were supposed to think that was cool or something I can't say I recall, but I imagine an actual ROCK BAND of moderate fame who seemed to enjoy the tale enough to write and record their own song about it, IMO, both piqued my own interest in both Poe's and the APP's bodies of work. So I guess at least "Mr. Lamb" managed to get through to one of us enough to pay attention in class that day! LOL

this is off of that book isnt it?? i dunno who its by...

by Edgar Allan Poe - 1846 Tells the story from a murdrerer's point of view.

A great song from a fantastic album. "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" Every song on there is an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story. While I am in general a sucker for concept albums this one is one of the best.

mak52 your right. 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' is amazing taking stories from edgar allen poe and throwing music into it. my favorite song on the album.

Yes, but the question is this. Was the album better before, or after Orson Welles?

Having first bought this album on CD, I'm only familar with the Orson Welles version. SInce Welles does his spiel just twice, I like the "voice of Poe" intro it adds to the first set of stories and then to "House of Usher". Had had he babbled through the whole thing, I'd find it annoying.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination is amazing as is everything else Alan Parsons Project did. I really don't understand why most songs only have like one or two comments.

This is fairly good, and it's nice that it is actually a project song, unlike half of what is on here.

what is that supposed to mean? ^