Spanish Inquisition or the Victim of the Inquisition", which has been attributed to Spaniard Luiz Gutiérrez, and is based on the case of María de Bohórquez, ferociously criticizes the Inquisition and its representatives. The Inquisition also appears in one of the chapters of the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which imagines an encounter between Jesus and the Inquisitor General. One of the best known stories of Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum", explores along the same lines the use of torture by the Inquisition. The novel Cornelia Bororquia was published in France, probably by a French writer
Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition Carey McWilliams published "Witch Hunt: The Revival of Heresy" in 1950 which was a study of the Committee of Un-American Activities in which wide use was made of the term "Inquisition" to refer to the contemporary phenomenon of anticommunist hysteria. The tenor of the work was later widened in "The American Inquisition, 1945–1960" by Cedric Belfrage and even later in 1982 with the book "Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War" by Stanley Kutler. The term "inquisition" has become so widely used that it has come to be a synonym for "official investigation, especially of a political or religious