The Pit and the Pendulum

"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story  written by 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. The narrator of the  story describes his experience of being tortured. The  story is especially ...