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The Pit and the Pendulum (Creative Short Stories)
The Pit and the Pendulum - Creative Short Stories Author:Edgar Allan Poe A classic of the horror genre, ?The Pit and the Pendulum? is Poe's dark tale of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, condemned to death and thrown in a black dungeon. The prisoner is then faced with the Hobson's Choice of throwing himself into an immense and seemingly bottomless pit, thus ending his life quickly, or to endure the torture of th... more »e slowly swinging blade of the pendulum.« less
ISBN-13: 9780871917713 ISBN-10: 0871917718 Pages:48 Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: