The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

25 pages first pub 1842 (editions) user-added

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city.A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and...

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