by John Escott
First published 2008
In the title story, a prisoner fights for his life as a deadly pendulum swings closer. Elsewhere, a woman is buried alive, a man is trapped in a pit, and a young woman is haunted by a ghostly presence. With each twist and turn, Edgar Allan Poe's classic stories of the macabre grip the reader in a vise of fear and fascination.
Genres: short-stories, 20th-century, horror, 19th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: horror-thriller, unreliable-narrator
Period: 19th-Century, 20th-Century
64 pages · Paperback · Oxford University Press
Content warnings: death, violence