We do not learn this man's name or what he is being charged with, but it isn't long before he's found guilty of the unnamed crime and condemned to death, after which he promptly faints and awakens in what is soon revealed to be a cell. The story is about a man who is brought to trial by The Spanish Inquisition. "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a classic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 and subsequently revised in 1845 for the Broadway Journal. Now our homeland is safe, the funereal cave destroyed, and life and health appear where dreadful death once was." note "Here an unholy mob of torturers with an insatiable thirst for innocent blood, once fed their long frenzy. Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro,
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