THE PENDULUM Edgar Alan Poe described the horror of being under the Pendulum in his story "The Pit and the Pendulum". How did the "pendulum" work? The torture would lasts longer as the iron blade which was fixed as high as possible under the ceiling of the room would swing back and forth. Using a special mechanism such as ones founded in old clocks alowing the pendulum to lower with each swing, rocking from side to side for hours, days even until finally reached the bottom. The victims on the be