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The Pit and the Pendulum
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Series: Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia
Unabridged: 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/07/2013
Category: Fiction - Horror
Synopsis
Edgar Allen Poe is seen today as one of the greatest practitioners of gothic and detective fiction that ever lived, and popular culture is replete with references to him. In The Pit and the Pendulum, one of his most famous short works, a condemned man is judged guilty by the Spanish Inquisition and sentenced to die. Locked away in a pitch-black cell, he soon discovers a pit in the center of the room, a watery grave at its base. Above him hangs a large, razor-sharp pendulum. As the man is slowly tortured, he must face either the pit or the pendulum.