Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum

ISBN-10: 1536832006
ISBN-13: 9781536832006
Series: Edgar Allan Poe
Pages: 36
Language: English
Published: 2016-08-19
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Description

Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city.A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".