How Does Poe Create Tension In The Pit And The Pendulum

In Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” Poe, uses the horror elements of isolation, fight or flight, and anxiety/distortion to add suspense to the story. In summation of the story it is set in the 1400’s in Spain and is following the pov of a man thrown into a dungeon to die. Over the whole part of the story the protagonist is faced with just being by himself also known as isolation. In the story it says all “...sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul of Hades. Then silence, and stillness, and night were the universe.” (Poe 1). So with the evidence presented we can conclude that the protagonist in this story is all alone and in a dark room all by himself and unable to feel anything. Next is