The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

24 pages first pub 1842 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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The chilling tale of the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. Poe plays on the reader's own senses to spark fear and revulsion. 

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