How Does Poe Create Suspense In The Pit And The Pendulum

In Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” Poe, uses the horror elements of suspense, isolation, and plot twist to add suspense to the story. The story has a lot of parts of where it him and he wants to know where he is and he's trying to figure out where he is by asking himself questions about the room and what it looks like then he trips and falls and when he wakes up he's tied down and he doesn't know what he is doing there. First in “The Pit and the Pendulum” Poe says that he “Groping about the masonry just below the margin, I succeeded in dislodging a small fragment, and let it fall into the abyss. For many seconds I hearkened to its reverberations as it dashed against the sides of the chasm in its descent; at length, there