The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe: Inquisition Torture & Escape

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition wakes in darkness, unable to see the pit waiting in his cell. When he regains consciousness again, he is bound beneath a razor-edged pendulum that descends with every swing. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” turns imprisonment into a contest between calculated torture and a terrified mind searching for a way out. This complete Gothic horror reading follows the sounds, sensations and desperate observations that keep the narrator struggling against panic. The blade is moving slowly. His time to think is running out.

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