For 10 points, the Spanish Inquisition is the background of what Edgar Allen Poe story in which the protagonist narrowly escapes two torture devices?
This work opens as the narrator recalls the thin, white lips of black-robed judges. It ends when General LaSalle arrives with the French army. In one scene, the narrator of this story trips while crossing the diagonal to measure the dimensions of a room. Rats save the narrator's life when they bite off straps smeared with meat, allowing this story's narrator to escape from a descending blade. For 10 points, the Spanish Inquisition is the background of what Edgar Allen Poe story in which the protagonist narrowly escapes two torture devices?
This work opens as the narrator recalls the thin, white lips of black-robed judges.
“The {Pit} and the {Pendulum}”