The narrator of the story recalls hearing some of the rumors about town which he had never taken seriously until he ended up imprisoned in one of them.  
It opens with a quatrain composed for the gates of a market in Paris.  It takes place in Toledo and ends as General Lasalle takes the city.  The narrator of the story recalls hearing some of the rumors about town which he had never taken seriously until he ended up imprisoned in one of them.  He regards the place he is incarcerated as the Ultima Thule of the Inquisitions' punishments.  For 10 points, what is this short story about a man trapped in a dungeon written by Edgar Allan Poe?
It opens with a quatrain composed for the gates of a market in Paris.  
“The {Pit and the Pendulum}”