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 Wish (book) for the TV series and video games. The book known in Poland as "Ostatnie życzenie" (SuperNOWA, 1993, ) has been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Swedish, Spanish, French, Finnish, Slovak, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Traditional Chinese. An English translation of "The Last Wish" was published in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2007 and in the United States by Orion in May 2008. A Polish language audio book based on "The Last Wish" and "The Sword of Destiny" was released in 2011 by Fonopolis and audioteka.pl. "The Last Wish", lasting about 12 hours, was voiced by 52 actors, including