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On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe's father and mother died before he was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child. Later in life, Poe developed a mental illness and turned a bit crazy, which was reflected a bit in his books/poems. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, critic and editor best known for short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics.

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“...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.”

“I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.”

“In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.”

“I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?”

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The fall of the house of Usher - Adrian Kelly

The rats in the walls - H.P. Lovecraft

Born in Exile - George Gissing

The minister's black veil - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ormond - Maria Edgeworth

The Monastery - Walter Scott

Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope

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While trying to figure out the nature of his prison, the main character trips and falls at the edge of a large pit. After eating what he thinks must be drugged food, he faints. When he wakes up, he find he's been tied down to a strange contraption, above which swings a mysterious pendulum.

Climax:
he approach of death in the form of the razor-sharp pendulum. The narrator watches the pendulum descend, hearing the swish of the blade and feeling the air move with every swing.

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The narrator is the only character in the story, and his perspective is highly subjective or compromised which makes him and 'unreliable-narrator'. This man is a prisoner enduring psychological and physical torture. He's exhausted and terrified, and he faints frequently. He also suspects that the water he's given is drugged, causing him to lose consciousness.