Descend into the deepest, murkiest torture chambers of the soul, where rapacious dreams dwell and nightmares are forged. Come, explore the mind’s private darkness.

These stories are each named after a medieval torture device, and the true meaning—and impact—of every title bubbles to the surface as the connection between the instruments and their psychological counterparts are revealed. Among these pages, an anguished child is drugged with hormones to ‘cure’ his dwarfism in ‘The Rack’; a forbidden love affair unfolds dangerously in ‘The Judas Cradle’; a man is reunited with his first love in the strangest of places in ‘The Pillory’.

Torn asunder and existing at the edges of our peripheral vision, the people in these tales hold up to the reader the greatest instrument of torture yet: a mirror that looks directly into the subconscious.