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Pit And The Pendulum By Edgar Allan Poe

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In “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe, there are three elements of horror that are more than worth mentioning; suspense, exploration of the violence of humanity, and anxiety/disorientation. There are many elements of horror in this story, but the suspense is everlasting in this story. The pendulum slowly swinging down “inch by inch- line by line- with a descent only appreciable at intervals that seemed ages” it just brings the reader slowly into that intense fear for such a long period driving them into that same sanity, truly at a much lower level but it shows them just enough to fear from suspense. And it isn’t the kind that lasts a short time, it is so many stages of death over a long period some think even several days. First
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