Horror? Terror? Or a double helping of both? Here are two of Edgar Allan Poe's most popular stories—”The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”—that make interesting companion pieces. In one, a murderous narrator grabs you by the collar and confesses his terrible crime; in the other, a political prisoner describes his relentless torture at the hands of the Inquisition. Which gives you the shivers?
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Edgar Allan Poe Sections
- Top 10 on the Poe Parade
- The Fall of the House of Poe
- The Old Foster Folks at Home
- Squaring Off
- Setting Out
- Finding Family
- On the Runway of Fashionable Ideas
- The Work Begins
- Filling the Pen with Prussic Acid
- The Pen Refilled
- Salons and Busybodies
- The Tell-Tale Heartthrob
- The Final Mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe
- Horrors!
- Tiger by the Tale
- One-Shot Deals and “Rejects”
- Reaching for Beauty—The Great Poems
- Crime After Crime
- Out of Place in the Literary Schoolyard
- Overthrowing the Conqueror Worm
- In Search of Eldorado
- Serving Up the Shivers
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