What is the mood of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” is
a work of various moods, although most of them are dark and sardonic. Some of the moods
presented in the work (which are inevitably also the moods of Montresor, the
first-person narrator) are the
following:

• Vengeful,
  as in the story’s opening
  sentence.


• Self-admiring and
  arrogant, as in the next two
  sentences:

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You, who so well know the nature of my soul,
will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At
length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled -- but the
very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not
only punish, but punish with
impunity.

• Hypocritical,
  as in the story’s second
  paragraph.


• Judgmental, as in
  the story’s third paragraph.


• Conspiratorial
  and self-satisfied, as when Montresor explains how he manipulated his own
  servants: “I had told them that I should not return until the
  morning.”


• Comical and
  condescending, as when Montresor describes the drunkenness of Fortunato:
  “The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap jingled as he
  strode.”


• Ironic, as when
  Montresor says, to the man he intends to kill, “your health is
  precious.”


• Gothic, as when
  one part of the dark, gloomy setting is described as follows: “At the most remote end of
  the crypt there appeared another less
  spacious.”


• Gruesome and
  horrific, as when the Montresor hears Fortunato awakening before
  Montresor has completed his scheme to seal Fortunato behind a wall of
  bricks:

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The earliest indication I had of this was a low
moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a drunken
man.

• Terrifying,
  as when Montresor admits that even he is afraid when he hears Fortunato laughing from
  behind the bricks: “But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the
  hairs upon my head.”


• Somewhat blasphemous
  and irreligious, as when, hearing Fortunato beg that he be released
  “[f]or the love of God,” Montresor replies: “Yes," I said, "for the
  love of God!"


• Smug, as in
  the story’s next-to-last sentence.