The Pit and the Pendulum

I think that Edgar Allan Poe is a great writer, but I cannot explain myself how he can write so well, because he had passed through a difficult childhood.
He was buried alive two times; I cannot imagine a think like that happening to me, besides his parents died when he was a child, and his wife died two years after they got married, I think that these are some of the main reasons of why he liked to write horror stories. He knew how to write, and in my opinion he was afraid of what he passed through his life, but he knew how to take advantage of it. (It isn’t brave the one who doesn’t have fear, but the one who knows how to conquer it.)
I liked a lot this story, because it really made me feel anxious, he knew how to manage the ideas of the story. I also liked the description of how the character felt, maybe Poe was comparing his own experience with his story.