![]() The man decides to take in his surroundings by feeling the walls around him, discovering the prison shaped like a square, about 50 feet wide. (The Inquisition was part of the Roman Catholic Church of Spain, which prosecuted non-believers and Protestants from the 16th-18th centuries.) Immediately after his sentence is handed down, the narrator faints and when he awakens finds himself in pitch darkness in the dungeons in Toledo-the famous Inquisition prison of “monkish tortures.” The story begins with a nameless narrator who finds himself on trial before seven severe judges, who sentence him to death as part of the Spanish Inquisition. The Pit and the Pendulum, about a man imprisoned during the Spanish Inquisition, is one of Edgar Allen Poe’s finest works and it captures horror at its height. ![]()
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