The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit and The Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

56 pages first pub 1842 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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Pit and The Pendulum is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike...

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