Rack, Rope and Red-hot Pincers

A bloodcurdling account of instruments of torture through the ages.
Includes:

Little Ease: a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down.

Skull Crusher: an iron skull-cap secured by a metal strap with screws on each side, which were tightened until the strap forced the teeth out of the jaw.

The Duke of Exeter's Daughter and Skeffington's Gyves: two of the many excruciating versions of the rack.

The Pendulum: a crescent-shaped, razor-sharp blade suspended from the end of a pendulum, which relentlessly swung ever closer to the victim below.

The Gridiron: a low bench of parallel metal bars with a fire beneath them, which grilled the flesh

and many more gruesome devices...

Published in 1993.
244 pages.