In this volume we explore that difficult situation where lack of choice is your only choice. We feel trapped either by the body or by the mind.

Our classic authors put their characters in positions that we can all relate too, and then devise fiendish and uncomfortable ways to deepen the malaise or perhaps offer some sort of escape, however temporary.

1 - Trapped Literally & Figuratively - An Introduction

2 - The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

3 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

4 - In a Far Country by Jack London

5 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac

6 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

7 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford

8 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce

9 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

10 - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce

11 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen Leacock

12 - The End of a Show by Barry Pain

13 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

14 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

15 - The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin

16 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

17 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield

18 - Transients in Arcadia by O Henry

19 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson

20 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

21 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield

22 - The Storm by Kate Chopin