Poe Edgar Allen Poe lived a very hard life, losing many people who were important to him. Edgar lost his mother, fiancé/cousin, and his step mother. Edgar had a tough life and shows it through his writing. Almost all of his stories are dark and have something to do with death. Two of his most famous writings are full of darkness and death. In his story “The Pit and the Pendulum”, Poe tells of a man being trapped in prison by the Spanish Inquisition. The man wakes up in a dark room where he can’t see anything. When the man drinks some of the water they give to him, he passes out because the water is poisoned. The man wakes up again but this time he is tied to a table and has a large and sharp pendulum swinging above him. The pendulum gets
