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Read "the pit and the pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe and "the signal man" by Charles Dickens. Which story do you find most effective? My first story is "the pit and the pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe. It is set during the torturous times of the Spanish inquisition. The story starts of with the person being sentenced by judges who are merely described as "black robed judges" this might be showing that they look dismal and dreary and is just summing up the atmosphere there, or they are just wearing black robes. The person doesn't actually hear the sentence as the person appears to be drifting in and out of consciousness. The judges who are sentencing him are only very, very briefly described and their actual physical selves are not described in full, although they do appear to be cruel as the writer mentions the word "grotesque". Throughout the first three pages...

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