Finally I read one of his masterpieces!
And it is good. 14 pages describing basically 4 horror-scenarios, folding into each other like an accordeon. It is impressive, to describe so minutiously every sensation and thought of hope and horror.
The end, well, a happy end. Not a Poe end! Would it have been better if he would have heard his saviours rush in at the moment when he started falling into the Pit? Or is that my doomed mind.
Considering the immense tortures they make him go through, it seems a bit like an easy ending. To make him suffer while they know they will be held captive soon, a final horror to bestow upon him, seems more fitting to me.
