dolan's cadillac

[motocop]

Awesome story. I love creative homicidal revenge stories. Did anybody else think Christian Slater was a pretty lame Dolan? I think Peter Greene would have been a good cast for Dolan. He just looks like a scum bag.

[Coconut]

I have a few thoughts about : Dolan's Cadillac

First, I have read 'Danse Macabre' about twenty-five years ago, and there is something SK said in that that has always stuck in my mind. That is that all the really good stories have already been told and it is up to us to (more or less) contemporize those tales. So, in that light, Dolan's Cadillac is merely E.A. Poe's 'Cask of Amontillado' retold, with the stakes raised a bit.

Second, what bothers me is that in the endnotes of Nightmares and Dreamscapes SK speaks at length about his inspiration and genesis of that story, but never once nods to Poe.
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He says the inspiration came from driving through such a construction site, like that described in Dolan's Cadillac. However, the only allusion I can see is that Dolan is buried beneath the Earth while Fortunato is buried behind a brick wall. The stories don't compare very well. At the most they are both tales of revenge.