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The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) | Edgar Allan Poe | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

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Macabre Miscellanea por Alex Thorn
29 sept 2026
44:44

Notas del episodio

A prisoner of the Inquisition wakes in total darkness, paces out the walls of his cell, and trips to land with his chin at the edge of a pit he never saw. That was supposed to be the easy death.

When it fails, he is strapped beneath a crescent blade that descends a fraction of an inch with every swing. He can count it. He has days to do the math. And the room is still not finished with him.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:05 The Sentence of Death

4:37 Waking in the Dark

8:51 Eyes Open to Eternal Night

11:13 Rumors of Toledo

13:10 Measuring the Cell

15:34 Face Down at the Edge

16:09 The Circular Pit

18:29 Drugged Water

20:44 Iron Walls

21:54 Bound Beside the Pit

23:18 The Pendulum

24:16 Rats from the Pit

26:58 Days Beneath the Blade

30:34 Three Inches Above the Chest

33:20 The Plan

34:45 The Rats Return

36:07 The Band Loosens

38:48 The Walls Awaken

41:44 Square Becomes Lozenge

42:42 The Last Foothold

43:46 Outro

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