Eddie “Spark Plug” Bray was a sixteen-year-old “champion fighter” from Arkansas. In reality, he had fought only once, but used the limelight of the acting as a rescuer to launch himself onto the vaudeville circuit.
a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe, describing the torture of a prisoner during the Spanish Inquisition. It focuses on death anxiety, a state of being trapped, and a terrorized narrator.