Comparing The Pit And The Pendulum By Edgar Allan Poe

The thought of death, torture, and suffering has often implemented fear into many throughout time. In order to create a horror story, many authors will include these topics in their works to create or strengthen a freighting mood, which makes their story almost seem like a nightmare. In the story the “The Pit and the Pendulum”, Edgar Allan Poe uses a central topic of death and torture to create a story that appears like a nightmare. Throughout Poe’s story, the narrator goes through a variety of torturous experiences, and is moments from dying multiple times. The dark, sinister mood is created by the description of what the hostage endures. This is seen when the narrator says, “I could no longer doubt the doom prepared for me by monkish ingenuity