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haracters or characters descending into madness or beset by demons. He died two years later.

Poe's problems with alcoholism come through in his stories, such as The Case of Amontillado, which is considered one of the world's most perfect short stories (Poe). It is about a man's love for alcohol and how the promise of a taste of a rare sherry of Amontillado leads him to his death as revenge for insulting the narrator of the story. In another story, The Black Cat, Poe uses the theme of the capacity of the human mind to o

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