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Poe’s setting intensifies the tone of horror. Poe sharpens the reader’s point of view when Fortunato and Montresor are walking down the stairs to the catacombs. He makes the reader want to shiver every time his story is read or told. The spiral staircase stairs leads down to a corridor, which goes to the crypts another horrific place. The crypt itself is a frightening and ghoulish place. “At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris” (76). The fact that there are human remains lined on the wall sets the horrific tone because if there were not any human remains on the wall