by Lee Sheridan (Author), Philip J. Riley (Editor)

A CASTLE THAT TORTURE BUILT, WHOSE DUNGEON WALLS STILL SWEATED BLOOD A FAMILY TERRORIZED BY THE AWFUL SECRET THEY SHARED-AND THE THING THAT SKRIEKED IN THE NIGHT A BEAUTIFUL, YOUNG GIRL ENSLAVED BY UNHOLY PASSIONS, SNARED IN A NET OF EVIL . . AND THE MAN WHO CHALLENGED A NIGHTMARE -AND DARED TO FACE ITS HORROR, ALONE Here is the gripping film story of American International's "The Pit and the Pendulum," adapted from the bone-chilling tale written by America's master of shock literature, Edgar Allen Poe Introduction by Richard A. Ekstedt THE MAKING OF "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM By Lawrence French