Illustration from the 'Pit of Pendulum' depicting the prisoner looking up at the swinging pendulum armed with a scimitar blade. Pit of Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Dated 19th Century

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