The Pit and the Pendulum

In The Cask of Amontillado, a man shackles his offender and proceeds to wall him up with stone and mortar. In The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, the dying Valdemar is hypnotized and--after death--continues to speak through the trance. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition describes his many tortures in The Pit and the Pendulum.