Pit and the Pendulum, the (1842) [Short Story]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Summary
(Library of Congress description):
Judged guilty by the Inquisition, a condemned man is slowly tortured.
Originally published in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, 1842.
Reprinted in:
- 65 Great Spine Chillers, ed. Mary Danby, Octopus 1982
- Book of the Dead (1986)
- The Fall of the House of Usher, Target 1986
- Tales of Mystery and Terror, Penguin/Puffin 1990
- The Gold-Bug and Other Tales, Dover 1991
- The Book of Dracula, ed. Leslie Shepard, Wings 1991
- The Dracula Book of Classic Horror Stories, ed. Leslie Shepard, Robert Hale 1992
- Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Putnam/Grosset & Dunlap 1993
- Selected Tales, Penguin/Godfrey Cave 1994
- Murders in the Rue Morgue & other stories, Pulp Fictions UK 1998
- Selected Tales, Oxford University Press 1998
- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, Penguin/Signet Classic 1998
Original title: The Pit and the Pendulum
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Adventure→ Survival
Fiction→ Horror→ General
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, the (1938) [Collection]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allen Poe: Selected Prose, Poetry, and Eureka (1950) [Collection]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe: Greenwich Unabridged Library Classics (1981) [Collection]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe: Greenwich Unabridged Library Classics (1981) [Collection]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Book of the Dead: Thirteen Classic Tales of the Supernatural, the (1986) [Anthology]
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, Charles Dickens
, Walter Scott
, Mary Shelley
, Wilkie Collins
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, F. Marion Crawford
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, Perceval Landon
, Margaret Oliphant
Selected Tales (1994) [Collection]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales, the (1994) [Collection]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Tales (1998) [Collection]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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