The Pit and the Pendulum
pendulums
Spanish Inquisition
Inquisition
short story
American Horror tales
Prisoners
American Short stories
Fear
Fiction, horror
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Horror tales
Horror stories
Short stories
Fiction, thrillers, suspense
American literature
Fiction, general
Children's fiction
Fiction
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts…
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