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noun:  "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.
noun:  The Pit and the PendulumWilliams, Lucy Chase.
noun:  (released on DVD in the United States as The Inquisitor) a 1991 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
noun:  "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
noun:  Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum is a 2009 horror erotic thriller film directed by David DeCoteau and starring Lorielle New, Stephen Hansen and Bart Voitila.
noun:  a three-reel film adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name, directed, and produced by pioneering French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché through her American company Solax Studios in 1913.
noun:  a 1964 French featurette horror film directed by Alexandre Astruc and starring Maurice Ronet.


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