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To explain, I had this old book I think the Penguin book of Ghost Stories. I was reading this story, but before I got to the end, I found someone had torn a few pages from the middle. I have never found the same story again (though I have tried to look for it), and have always wanted to get to the finish.
It was an old horror story, about a murder, the body being kept in a cask of wine. Where the victim's blood fined it so much, the detective investigating the missing man's disappearance thought it was delicious when he drank some. I think it was called 'The Wine Merchant', or something vaguely similar.
Do'es it sound familiar to anyone, ring any bells; anyone got any idea what it was called??

Any help appreciated. Thanx.

2006-08-23 11:12:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

9 answers

It doesn't really match up with Edgar Allan Poe's the Cask of Amontillado.
I found the table of contents. Maybe you will recognize the title:
page 38 • The Beggarwoman of Locarno • Heinrich von Kleist
41 • The Entail • E. T. A. Hoffmann
90 • Wandering Willie’s Tale [from Redgauntlet] • Sir Walter Scott
105 • The Queen of Spades [1834] • Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin;
128 • The Old Nurse’s Story • Elizabeth Gaskell
148 • The Open Door • Margaret Oliphant
181 • Mr. Justice Harbottle [“The Haunted House in Westminster”; Martin Hesselius] • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
209 • The Horla • Guy de Maupassant
229 • Sir Edmund Orme • Henry James
253 • Angeline, or the Haunted House • Émile Zola;
263 • The Moonlit Road • Ambrose Bierce
271 • A Haunted Island • Algernon Blackwood •
285 • The Rose Garden • M. R. James
295 • The Return of Imray [“The Recrudescence of Imray”; E. Strickland] • Rudyard Kipling
305 • My Adventure in Norfolk • A. J. Alan
311 • The Inexperienced Ghost [“The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost”] • H. G. Wells
322 • The Room in the Tower • E. F. Benson
333 • One Who Saw [as by Ex-Private X] • A. M. Burrage
347 • Afterward • Edith Wharton
373 • The Wardrobe [1899] • Thomas Mann
380 • The Buick Saloon [as by Mary O’Malley] • Ann Bridge
394 • The Tower • Marghanita Laski
401 • Footsteps in the Snow • Mario Soldati;
410 • The Wind • Ray Bradbury
419 • Exorcizing Baldassare • Edward Hyams
430 • The Leaf-Sweeper • Muriel Spark
435 • “Dear Ghost...” • Fielden Hughes
450 • Sonata for Harp and Bicycle • Joan Aiken
458 • Come and Get Me • Elizabeth Walter
479 • Andrina • George Mackay Brown
486 • The Axe • Penelope Fitzgerald •
493 • The Game of Dice • Alain Danielou
499 • The July Ghost • Antonia S. Byatt

2006-08-23 16:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 1 0

Any idea on the author, time period, or even where they may have been from? (I ask this because you'll get collections of Irish stories, English stories, etc.) For some reason I'm thinking M.R. James, because that sounds like his level of creepy, but not *quite* his style--he was a lot more supernatural. I'll poke around--goodness only knows how many book of Irish ghost stories I have around here, it's a bit of an interest of mine, but I love many old horror stories...

2006-08-23 11:20:35 · answer #2 · answered by angk 6 · 0 0

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

2006-08-23 11:22:49 · answer #3 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0 0

Have a look on Amazon for the book, they have pratically every book going on there new or used.

2006-08-23 11:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by TB 5 · 0 0

Sounds like a Roald Dahl thing to me either him writing it or a collection.

2006-08-23 11:39:39 · answer #5 · answered by puzzledfemale! 3 · 0 0

ya, i got that book. do u want the ending or the whole story.
my email id is ishanpatnaik@gmail.com

now, how about those 10 points?

2006-08-23 16:19:49 · answer #6 · answered by patnaiklegends 2 · 0 0

Not Poe's Cask... just read it..
I thought so too, at first..

2006-08-23 11:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0 0

sorry i canny help u oot!!! sound like a good story tho!!! i luv ghost stories and a good horror dvd too!!! hope sum1 else can help u oot!!! sorry once again and good luck!!!! :-)

2006-08-23 11:16:02 · answer #8 · answered by little_hen_uk 3 · 1 1

try www.worldbooks.co.uk

2006-08-23 11:18:37 · answer #9 · answered by mishnbong 6 · 0 0

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