Their flames went out utterly the blackness of darkness supervened all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades.' The shock takes over and the narrator remembers little of what happens next. Until that moment, it seemed impossible to think that something would not save him from this terrible fate, but then 'the figures of the judges vanished as if magically, from before me the tall candles sank into nothingness. At the beginning of the story, the narrator is explaining his reaction as he's sentenced to death by the inquisitors. One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories, The Pit and the Pendulum, a work of horror that achieves its effect through a description of the unnamed narrator’s experiences and internal feelings, was for its time remarkably innovative in its focus on sensations.
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