The plot of Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum"

The Pit and the Pendulum.

The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. This story is one of the most popular stories from the writer because it is considered as one of the most shocking stories in horror literature. The first publication was in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843 and this story was and is very famous because it transmits fear, uncertainty and neglect of a person who knows he will die.

The story tells the situation of a person who is a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition offered a choice of death: one could die in great physical pain or by the most terrible mental suffering. The whole story is set in a cell in which there is a pit in the center. The plot is really interesting because from the start to the finish you never know who he is and what he did to be there. The only things that you know are that he is in a cell and he is starting to lose his mind because at first he looks his cell in one way, the walls were cold and slightly wet, and at the end he looks the same walls but now they were hot and moving and this forced him to fall into the pit.

The storyline is very awesome and I really like it because you are always on the lookout for something to happen and keeps you in suspense in the whole story. I think that every line is as important as the others.

The Pit and the Pendulum is an excellent horror and suspense story, I really imagined every situation while I was reading. I thoroughly recommend it.

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