Lester, in my opinion the scariest of all, from the outside seems a bit strange although he seems to have two eyes, ears and legs which make our perspective on him less alarming. We initially find this less intimidating because as human beings we can find many relationships with others simply by the fact that they are human too. When we explore his mind a little deeper, we understand his deranged realities. “He would arrange her in different positions and then go out and peek at her through the window. After a while he sat holding her, his hands feeling her body under her new clothes. Then he took off his pants and lay down next to her. He spread her loose thighs. You wanted it, he told her. What is described here is Lester's treatment of the young girl he killed and practices necrophilia on. The next character, Amontillado, relates to Lester only due to the fact that he is also a human being. What makes it scarier is the idea of ​​having the knowledge and ability to completely plan a torturous murder and, after all these years, being able to tell the story as if it happened just yesterday. “He approached me with excessive heat, because he had been drinking a lot. The man was wearing motley clothes. He wore a tight striped dress, and his head was topped by the conical cap and bells. From this quote it is now clear that Amontillado knew almost every specific detail about that day, including what Fortunato was wearing. The last character, Grendal, displays his monstrosity in almost the opposite way to both Amontillado and Lester. Grendal is seen as a symbolic monster