It is almost impossible to escape the Spanish Inquisition alive. However, Edgar Allan Poe’s unnamed narrator, after suffering innumerable tortures upon his bo

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imaginati

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition faces psychological and physical torture in a dark cell. He struggles to

The Pit and the Pendulum is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story of condemnation, hope and redemption. The comic book version of Poe’s story bor

The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annu