The opening scene of the modern theatrical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum at the Omnibus ... prisoner who wakes up in a pitch-black vault after being handed a death ...

Afsaneh Dehrouyeh paces out the dimensions of her cell, avoids toppling into the pit but gives as good as ... Auster's video and montage illuminating the dark with Matt Eaton's sound design ...

Like other works by Edgar Allan Poe, the gothic tale of The Pit And The Pendulum leaves a few questions hanging. A man faces death in a dark chamber at the fate of a razor-sharp pendulum – but ...

I'm wondering now, as I wondered the first time I read it, what was actually in the pit? "The Masque of the ... When the narrator in "The Black Cat" cuts out the animal's eye, you can't help ...

The Pit and the Pendulum is one of the pen and ink illustrations ... in an edition published in 1919 by George G Harrap, London. Clarke’s dark, rather morbid symbolist imagery – The Bookman ...