Captivating Readings w/ Alan Sklar: A Reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s 'Pit and the Pendulum'

Get ready for Halloween! Acclaimed voice actor Alan Sklar performs a dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”. 
“The Pit and the Pendulum” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader or listener because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe’s stories which are aided by the supernatural.
About Alan Sklar: Dartmouth Graduate Alan Sklar has been a profesional voice actor for over 30 years, doing hundreds of Radio/ TV comercials, and documentaries, and other formats.  He has also narrated over 200 audio-books, is a former WPIX (Channel 11) announcer, and is currently the spokesman for Casper mattresses and the top-selling video game, “Clash of Clans”.