Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe?

Short of actually reading the story (which is a pretty good one once you get past the old-fashioned language), you may want to have a look at SparkNotes: a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section7.rhtml" rel="nofollow"http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories…/a