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The Pit and the Pendulum
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These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down—down—still down—till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.†
It seemed evident that mine was not, at least, the most hideous of fates.†
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To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.†
The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely daubed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise.†

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