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Young people enjoy being scared, and Edgar Allan Poe can scare them more than almost anyone. He is one of the all-time masters of creeping flesh and goose- pimple raisers. In one of his tales of terror, ' 'The Pit and the Pendulum," he stirs, in the minds and hearts of his readers, a prickly sense of terror. "The Pit and the Pendulum," like ghost stories around a campfire, fulfills Poe's intention more successfully when heard.
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. 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 especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural. The traditional elements established in popular horror tales at the time are followed, but critical reception has been mixed. The tale has been adapted to film several times.
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