Il pozzo e il pendolo-The pit and the pendulum

”The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely daubed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise. The figures of fiends in aspects of menace, with skeleton forms, and other more really fearful images, overspread and disfigured th Leggi tutto

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe The story was remarkably suspenseful and chilling. It's a story about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition . Because of the atmosphere, it inspired fear in the reader's mind. Notwithstanding a little book, it's long enough to be car Leggi tutto

At age twelve I was given my first introduction to the world of literature by my mother who read me Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum . I can still vividly recollect living through the horrors of the chamber with the unnamed narrator, wondering why Christian monks would construct such a room and why Chr Leggi tutto

A classic of sensational horror, The Pit and the Pendulum is also, for me, one of the Poe stories that most closely resembles (and certainly influences) later writers such as Franz Kafka. Here we have several Kafka-like elements: a judgment pronounced by distant, stern, inhuman judges, with no sense Leggi tutto

As the doorbell rings nearly incessantly and the frigid air seeps into my living room, I am all tucked up in a corner of the couch with my fluffy blanket, a glass of The Velvet Devil Merlot, and a book of tales from the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe. I'm leaving the job of distributing candy to

Poe's Petrifying Pit & the Pendulum! It's been 20-plus years since I'd read this one and I had forgotten how this one ended. Very cool. Our beleaguered narrator has already been through some shit at the hands of those damn dirty monks, but this story starts with him being sentenced to death by some h Leggi tutto

The Pit and the Pendulum (published in 1842) is one of Poe's most famous tales of horror. It does not have a supernatural element, but relies on evoking fear in the reader because of its heavy emphasis on sensations, (view spoiler) [for instance the airlessness of the cell, the dim or nonexistent lighting, the his (hide spoiler)] Leggi tutto

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MR POE?!!!? Time conquers all; it is an inescapable fate for all men: it cannot be defeated or avoided. It’s a powerful, unshakable, enemy and a recurring theme across many of Poe’s stories. I’ve seen it a few times now. This time it is a tormenter and a reminder of the incoming Leggi tutto

Book Review 3+ of 5 stars to The Pit and the Pendulum , a short story written in 1842, by Edgar Allan Poe . As in the tradition of Poe's other Gothic and gory tales, this one takes the fear of death to new heights. Poe tells the story of a man facing punishment during the Spanish Inquisitio

The Pit: and the Pendulum: 3.75 stars. In this 1842 short story by Edgar Allen Poe, an unnamed prisoner details the ghastly and elaborate tortures he endures at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition. He begins with his sentencing by black-robed judges, a nightmarish sequence of images that culminates Leggi tutto