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"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. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural. The traditional elements established in popular horror tales at the time are followed, but critical reception has been mixed. The tale has been adapted to film several times.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
May 03, 2017, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Pit and the Pendulum: Edgar Allan Poe
Sep 25, 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Pit and the Pendulum: the essential Poe
2009, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Pit and The Pendellum
February 2, 2004, BookSurge Classics
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1594561834 9781594561832
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The Pit and the Pendulum
January 2000, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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in English
0809200473 9780809200474
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The Pit and the Pendulum
September 2000, Travelman Pub
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The Pit and the Pendulum
January 1995, Listening Library
Audio Cassette
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0807261122 9780807261125
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The Pit and the Pendulum
January 1995, Listening Library
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Pit and the Pendulum (Tc 1115 1)
June 1985, Caedmon Audio Cassette
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9996604098 9789996604096
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The pit and the pendulum
1985, World International Publishing Limited
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0723576815 9780723576815
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Pit and the Pendulum (Classic Short Stories on Tape Series)
May 1982, Jamestown Pubns
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0890612676 9780890612675
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The Pit and the Pendulum
August 1962, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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"I WAS sick - sick unto death with that long agony: and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me."
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