In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition faces psychological and physical torture in a dark cell. He struggles to
This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imaginati
It is almost impossible to escape the Spanish Inquisition alive. However, Edgar Allan Poe’s unnamed narrator, after suffering innumerable tortures upon his bo
A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for th