The Cask of Amontillado Poe may have borrowed Montresor's family motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" from James Fenimore Cooper, who used the line in "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826). Poe wrote his tale, however, as a response to his personal rival Thomas Dunn English. Poe and English had several confrontations, usually revolving around literary caricatures of one another. Poe thought that one of English's writings went a bit too far, and successfully sued the other man's editors at "The New York Mirror" for libel in 1846. That year English published a revenge-based novel called "1844, or, The Power of the S.F." Its plot
The Last Book of Jorkens of his previously uncollected Jorkens stories, four having been omitted, mostly from the earlier collections, and one more written after the collection was prepared for publication. These stories were finally brought together with the rest of the Jorkens tales in "The Collected Jorkens"; two of them in "Volume Two", and the remaining three, including Dunsany's last Jorkens story, written within months of his death, in "Volume Three". The book collects twenty-two short pieces by Dunsany. The Last Book of Jorkens The Last Book of Jorkens is a collection of fantasy short stories around the character Joseph Jorkens by writer Lord