MACABRE STORIES

The Pit and Pendulum is a horror story by Edgar Allan Poe. It is about a man who was condemned by the judges. When he was in his dark cell, he found a pit with water, and he started to think that in the cell there were people who died. Later, he woke up in a diferent room. He was lied in the floor and from the ceiling there was a sharpened pendulum hanging. He tried to scape, but he was tied with knots. He was not alone in this room, there were mice eating some meat. He thought that after they finished the meat, he is going to be the next meal. Luckly, he was not sliced in half. But, that was not the end. The walls were getting closer to him. He started to hear voices, thunders, etc, until an arm caught him to avoid the fall of the man, fainting, in to the abyass.