Retold in graphic novel format, the narrator tells of his macabre torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.

This graphic novel adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of terror visually explores the dizzying highs and horrifying lows of a prisoner sentenced to death by the Inquisition.

The narrator tells of his macabre torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition. Written in graphic-novel format.

Edgar Allan Poe (19 January 1809 â?? 7 October 1849) was an American writer best known for stories of mystery and horr

First published in an 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, The Pit and the Pendulum takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a pendulum. Unlike many of Poe's short stories, The Pit and the Pendulum does not rely on any supernatural elements to inspire fear but instead uses the narrator's heightened sensory experiences to do so.

"I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony," begins one of the most famous tales from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Through the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition, we follow the straying mind of an unnamed prisoner in his quest for hope in a world of darkness and despair.