Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and was found barely conscious two years after his wife's death on a Baltimore street in 1949; three days later, he was dead at the age of forty. Just like how he lived and died, many of his stories and poems were a mystery. Two of his most famous works "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Raven" were dark and mysterious fictions with dark characters and mysterious plots. “The Cask of Amontillado” was a story about the dark act of the satanic quest for revenge, unlike “The Raven,” which invited us into the soul of a grieving man. Both stories were essential and gave meaning to what Poe was going through in those years of his life. His wife was ill and dying of “tuberculosis” (385). He had already begun to suffer before “his wife died in 1847 (385). Poe wrote "The Raven in 1844" and "The Cask of Amontillado" in 1846, which are among his most popular works. In "The Barrel of Amontillado" the story is told by Montresor who is the real villain of the story. It's a chilling story of revenge told as if it were a deathbed confession." Many reviewers unfairly single out Poe's works as coming directly from his subconscious, ignoring not only the care with which Poe chose his words and phrases, but also the sources that inspired the stories” (EA Poe Society, “Autobiography”) . His conscience was in a dark place as he wrote this story. “He was fighting alcoholism through his stories” (McDonald). He was using his story as self-therapy, which inspired him to write "The Cask of Amontillado." With years of planning and plotting revenge; It doesn't make you the victim. You have to ask yourself what happened to forgiveness. What did Fortunato do to deserve this torture? The whole story is a little… middle of the paper… lado'” Poe Studies, vol. V, n.2 December 1972:19 EA Poe Society of Baltimore 2 September 2002.29 April 2004 http://eapoe.org/pstudies/ps1970/p1972209.htmMcDonald, Trent, “Seeing Poe's Fight with Alcoholism through his Stories “The Cask of Amontillado” T McDonald-trentsworld.com, http://scholar.google.com/scholar“The Raven: Author Biography”. Poetry for students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. ENotes.com. January 2006. February 28, 2011. http://www.enotes.com/raven/author-biography.Poe, Edgar Allan. Literature “The Barrel of Amontillado”: ​​read, react, write. Seventh edition. Eds. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, Boston: Wadsworth, 2010 385-390. PrintPoe, Edgar Allan. “Il Corvo” literature: reading, reacting, writing. Seventh edition. Eds. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, Boston: Wadsworth, 2010 385-390. Press