Nevermind the most terrifying feature, a glowing pit of fire. The Cell - OK, the prison cell isn't a character per se, but it is a mysterious, transformative (and shrinking) torture chamber that makes for an interesting dynamic in the story. The Rats - The unlikely heroes of the story, who chew the prisoner's bindings loose so he can escape the descending pendulum before it slices him to death. General Lasalle - Napoleon's general who rescues the Inquisition prisoner from his torturers just in the nick of time. Judges - The seven judges who condemn the prisoner to torture and death. Unnamed Prisoner - The narrator is condemned to death by sinister judges, supposedly during the Spanish Inquisition, who incarcerate him in a hellish prison cell, where he experiences terror after terror.
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