What Were You Thinking, Edgar?

The Pit and the Pendulum is my favorite Poe story, but I hate the ending. I would like you to write a new ending for the story. It doesn't have to be long, and it can be really gory, but something more creative than
"There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell fainting into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies."

That ending seems way too contrived. You can have the narrator live or die, your choice, but do it in your best Poe manner and have fun with it.