The Pit and the Pendulum: A Terrifying Classic Horror Story of Torture, Psychological Terror, and Life-or-Death Survival – An Unabridged Gothic Masterpiece: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Classic Horror Stories series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Pit and the Pendulum: A Terrifying Classic Horror Story of Torture, Psychological Terror, and Life-or-Death Survival – An Unabridged Gothic Masterpiece runs 0.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Cass Merry (about 0.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 0.7 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day | 1 day |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 0.7 hours, it is shorter than 83% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Classic Horror Stories
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 1.9 hours before it; books 1 to 7 run 3.7 hours in all.
More narrated by Cass Merry
Cass Merry narrates 50 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 77 hours in all.
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- The Eternal Asylum. A Short Scary Story: The Suspenseful and Paranormal Journey into Haunted Institutions, Dark Mysteries & Psychological Terror
- Graveyard Grin. A Short Creepy Horror Story: The Scary Suspenseful Mystery of a Murderous Clown in a Paranormal End-of-the-World Despair Scenario
- Scary Stories. A Collection of Short Horror Tales: Bone-Chilling Cosmic Thrillers & Supernatural Suspense Terror in a Dystopian World
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
227 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Pit and the Pendulum: A Terrifying Classic Horror Story of Torture, Psychological Terror, and Life-or-Death Survival – An Unabridged Gothic Masterpiece is book 5 of Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Horror Stories series: a 0.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Cass Merry, released January 5, 2025, on the Classics (Literature) and Horror shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 0.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Cass Merry
- Released
- January 5, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Horror, Psychological
- Series
- Classic Horror Stories #5
- ISBN
- 9798347977215
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Pit and the Pendulum: A Terrifying Classic Horror Story of Torture, Psychological Terror, and Life-or-Death Survival – An Unabridged Gothic Masterpiece as an audiobook?
The Pit and the Pendulum: A Terrifying Classic Horror Story of Torture, Psychological Terror, and Life-or-Death Survival – An Unabridged Gothic Masterpiece runs 0.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.5 hours.
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Who narrates The Pit and the Pendulum: A Terrifying Classic Horror Story of Torture, Psychological Terror, and Life-or-Death Survival – An Unabridged Gothic Masterpiece?
The Pit and the Pendulum: A Terrifying Classic Horror Story of Torture, Psychological Terror, and Life-or-Death Survival – An Unabridged Gothic Masterpiece is narrated by Cass Merry.