Edgar Allan Poe's The pit and the pendulum
The fall of the house of Usher: A young man visits the home of his bride-to-be, and finds her brother willing to bury her alive to prevent the continuation of the family bloodline, which he believes is tainted by an evil curse. The pit and the pendulum: Francis Barnard travels to Spain upon hearing of his sister's death there, where he discovers she may be buried alive by her husband--the son of a notorious Spanish Inquisition torturer.
