The Pit and the Pendulum is a program from the American radio anthology series Radio Tales. This award-winning anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. “The Pit and the Pendulum” program from the Radio Tales series is a dramatized adaptation of the short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1842.
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The Pit and the Pendulum is a program from the American radio anthology series Radio Tales. This award-winning anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. “The Pit and the Pendulum” program from the Radio Tales series is a dramatized adaptation of the short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1842.
The story begins in a courtroom, as a sentence of death is passed on the unidentified narrator. The court belongs to the Spanish Inquisition, and the narrator has been convicted as a heretic, though specific crimes have not been enumerated. For a time the narrator exists in a state of shock in which sounds have disappeared but sights have become exaggerated and crisp – the faces of the judges, the black drapes of the courtroom and the candles on the table all appear in grotesque and dreamlike detail. The narrator thinks how welcome death will be, and then...
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