In Edgar Allen Poe’s story, “The pit and the pendulum,” poe, uses the horror elements of fight or flight, suspense, and madness. In The pit and pendulum Edgar Poe is constantly in situations that bring suspense, like when he was under the pendulum waiting for death, or when he saw an exit and heard people it brings suspense bc he doesn't know if he's going to make it out and live or not, “I saw them fashion the syllables of my name.” This story shows fight or flight bc the story is about him trying to escape his death from this dungeon type thing. “Free!- and in the grasp of the inquisition! I had scarcely stepped from my wooden bed of horror upon the stone floor.” The madness of this story is pretty much the whole thing bc he's tied down
