During the Spanish inquisition heretics were tortured, imprisoned in dark cells, and murdered for opposing the Roman Catholic Church. The inquisitors would put their prisoners in dark cells that had a pit in the center. The most common way of tortured was being executed and executions were in high demand during the Spanish inquisition. In his short story, “The Pit and The Pendulum”, Edgar Allan Poe builds suspense with darkens and the use of a pendulum for torturing heretics. Just the thought of being alone in a dark and unknown place gives people goosebumps. In “The Pit and The Pendulum,” when the narrator regained his conscious back, he found himself lying on his back in a damp environment. He was thinking the worst, he thought that he had