The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

22 pages first pub 1842 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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The story depicts the Spanish Inquisition. An unnamed narrator is brought to trial before sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is there or what he has been arrested for. Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as...

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