I was in the pit, you were in the pit, WE ALL WERE IN THE PIT! There's like, so much fainting in this story. Jo doesn't believe this narrator AT ALL. Wren is pretty sure he makes it out alive. But alas! The inquisitorial vengeance has been hurried by our twofold escape... make yourself a delicious brandy eggnog like ol' Poe would and dive into the Pit and the Pendulum.

SPARKNOTES: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section7/

READ IT AND WEEP: https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Poe/Pit_Pendulum.pdf

THE PIT BY MOUSE RAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZMcvd0yjo