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 Introduction2 - The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe3 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka4 - In a Far Country by Jack London5 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac6 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe7 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford8 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce9 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe10 - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce11 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen Leacock12 - The End of a Show by Barry Pain13 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe14 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe15 - The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin16 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf17 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield18 - Transients in Arcadia by O Henry19 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson20 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman21 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield22 - The Storm by Kate Chopin