Author:  Edgar Allan Poe
Online reading time: 1 hr.
Published:  1842
Original language:  English
Type:  Story , Novel
Literary Genre: Horror, Fiction, Mystic Romance , Psychological Romance, Realism

The time of the Spanish Inquisition. A prisoner tries to find a way out of a stone prison, but his efforts are fruitless. Fear of multiple tortures and brutal despair lie ahead.