so less cask of amontillado and more the pit and the pendulum or

[cimorene]

There was a pause. The whole strength of the company gazed at me like a family group out of one of Edgar Allan Poe’s less cheery yarns, and I felt my joie de vivre dying at the roots.

—P.G. Wodehouse, “Without the Option” (in Carry On, Jeeves)

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[vass]

Fall of the House of Usher.