![]() ![]() ![]() I've seen any number of stories and novels that play with the myth of Robert Johnson meeting the devil at the crossroads at midnight. Because three books into a series, it's difficult to talk about a new book such as this without spoilers-especially when events here gain added resonance because of what we know about the characters from what has gone on before. Skip to the next review if you haven't yet, but think you might, read the two previous books in Alex Bledsoe's Tufa series, The Hum and the Shiver and Wisp of a Thing. Tufa Tales: Appalachian Fae, by Tuatha Dea, Tuatha Dea, 2015, $20. Long Black Curl, by Alex Bledsoe, Tor Books, 2015, $24.95. Index of Title, Month and Page sorted by Author Fantasy and Science Fiction: Books To Look For by Charles de Lint ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Montresor offers wine (first Medoc, then De Grave) to Fortunato in order to keep him inebriated. Fortunato goes with Montresor to the wine cellars of the latter's palazzo, where they wander in the catacombs. Montresor knows Fortunato will not be able to resist demonstrating his discerning palate for wine and will insist that he taste the amontillado rather than Luchesi who, as he claims, "cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry". He mentions obtaining confirmation of the pipe's contents by inviting a fellow wine aficionado, Luchesi, for a private tasting. Montresor lures Fortunato into a private wine-tasting excursion by telling him he has obtained a pipe (about 130 gallons, 492 litres) of what he believes to be a rare vintage of amontillado. Angry over numerous injuries and some unspecified insult, he plots to murder his "friend" during Carnival when the man is drunk, dizzy, and wearing a jester's motley. The story's narrator, Montresor, tells the story of the day that he took his revenge on Fortunato (Italian for "the fortunate one"), a fellow nobleman, to an unspecified person who knows him very well. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. 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