Poe, Edgar Allan,  1809-1849 <br/><br/>
La Puto kaj la Pendolo: Rakonto el la Hispana Inkvizicio 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pit_and_the_Pendulum  Release date is 2020-01-17 
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<br/><br/> "La Puto kaj la Pendolo: Rakonto el la Hispana Inkvizicio" by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story first published in 1842. An unnamed prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition faces a series of psychological and physical torments in complete darkness. He discovers a deadly pit, narrowly escapes a descending razor-sharp pendulum, and confronts closing red-hot walls. Through intense sensory detail, Poe creates mounting terror as the narrator struggles to survive increasingly horrific methods of execution designed by his captors. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Short stories Horror tales Torture -- Fiction Inquisition -- Spain -- Fiction 
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