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Books with title The Pit and the Pendulum

  • The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Paperback (Penguin Books, Sept. 1, 1995)
    This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
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  • Edgar Allan Poe's the Pit and the Pendulum

    David Cutts, Edgar Allan Poe, Monroe Eisenberg

    Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, July 1, 1982)
    A victim of the Inquisition faces a slow and tortuous death under the constantly swinging blade of the pendulum
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  • The Pit And The Pendulum And Five Other Tales

    Edgar Allan Poe, Rick Illustrated by Schreiter

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Inc., March 15, 1967)
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  • The Pit and the Pendulum Illustrated

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Paperback (Independently published, Dec. 26, 2018)
    The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by 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.
  • Edgar Allan Poe's the Pit and the Pendulum

    David Cutts, Edgar Allan Poe, Monroe Eisenberg

    Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, July 1, 1982)
    Judged guilty by the Inquisition, a condemned man is slowly tortured.
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  • The Pit and the Pendulum: Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 17, 2016)
    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 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.
  • The Pit and the Pendulum, and Five Other Tales

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, June 1, 1967)
    Horror, suspense and murder abound in these 6 spine-chilling tales
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  • Pit and the Pendulum: And Other Stories

    Edgar Allan Poe, Davis J, James Prunier

    School & Library Binding (Tandem Library, )
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  • The Pit and the Pendulum - Unabridged

    Edgar Allan Poe, Kevin Theis, Fort Raphael Publishing Company

    Audiobook (Fort Raphael Publishing Company, Aug. 9, 2018)
    Prepare for an audio-enhanced descent...into horror. A prisoner, sentenced to death during the Spanish Inquisition, finds himself trapped in a lightless cell to contemplate his fate. Will he die by falling helplessly into a deathly, yawning pit in the center of the room? Or will the deadly, razor-sharp pendulum slowly descending from the ceiling be the cause of his demise? This enhanced audiobook - with music and sound effects - is an unabridged copy of the classic story by the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, and produced by Fort Raphael Publishing, Chicago, Illinois.
  • The Pit and The Pendulum

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Paperback (Independently published, June 7, 2019)
    Pit and The Pendulum is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. 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 Pit and the Pendulum

    Edgar Allan Poe, Gill Tavner, Jonathan Vickers, Real Reads

    The world's greatest classics retold for children. The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath. Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator descends into a kind of hell. Dizzy with weakness and fainting with fear, he experiences such torments that death itself would be welcome. What troubles him most is the eternal question: how will he die? Toledo Prison is notorious for the torture of the condemned. What minds have dreamed up the terror of the pit in the centre of the cell? What is the significance of the painted figure of Time with his menacing pendulum? Why do the walls glow with heat? Experience with the narrator the intensity of his suffering when death seems inevitable but its form uncertain. Can anything, or anybody, help him?
  • The pit and the pendulum

    Edgar Allan Poe

    eBook (, Jan. 10, 2018)
    A man is in a room without light. He attempted to figure out his rooms shape, and ended up almost falling down a pit. Later he was drugged by the food the captors have given him. He has ended up strapped to a table with a big pendulum holding a giant blade that was slowly descending. In order to save himself, he took the beef they have allowed him to have as a last meal, and smothered his bindings in their juices, prompting the rats to eat them. He was released just before the blade would have killed him, only the walls were moving towards the centre pit. He would have fallen in but a man had grabbed his arm. That man was an officer in charge of releasing all the prisoners at the end of the Inquisition.