The Story Is Set In A Nameless Italian City In An Unspecified Year (possibly Sometime During The Eighteenth Century) And Concerns The Deadly Revenge Taken By The Narrator On A Friend Who He Claims Has Insulted Him. Like Several Of Poe's Stories, And In Keeping With The 19th-century Fascination With The Subject, The Narrative Revolves Around A Person Being Buried Alive--in This Case, By Immurement.