The first in the "Pit Bull" Peter Geller series finds Pit trying to drink himself to death until an unexpected call from an college friend pulls him back from the edge. David Hunt is being blackmailed. But by whom? Can the brilliant, broken Pit unravel the mystery before Davy's life is ruined?
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Yet, despite the terrific torments, the story focuses primarily on how terror is implicitly depicted through the workings of the mind. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic.
In The Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.
The comic book version of Poe’s story borrows images from the award-winning stop motion animated film, The Pit and the Pendulum.
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 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 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.
Retold in graphic novel format, the narrator tells of his macabre torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story is deemed guilty for an unnamed crime and put into a completely dark room.
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.