Download or read book The Pit and the Pendulum written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-12-11 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Pit and the Pendulum« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1842. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stints in academia and the military, he began working as a literary critic and author. He made his debut with the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, but it was in his short stories that Poe's peculiar style truly flourished. He died in Baltimore in 1849.