Horror? Porn? try Horrible porn Witchcraft, mysoginistic torture of women, and a ghost thrown in so it can be classified as a horror novel. Having read the writers previous works I can only be thankful he kept Norse mythology references to a minimum (Read the author's "I am Dracula" and "I am Frankenstein" novels for a better idea of what I'm saying).
The story revolves around the heroine's search for her kidnapped sister. The sister being kidnapped by a cardboard cutout of what the author thinks is a mafia don. The mafia don's father is the family patriarch and has a very unusual "guest" residing inside him. The torture sequences are written in detail...almost to the point where one wonders how the author hasn't been classified as a registered sex offender yet. Folks, if you live near this guy, keep your daughters under a watchful eye when he's around.
The mafia don has two partners who help him videotape snuff films with kidnapped girls in an underground tomb...where the girls are tortured (hence the book title) with medieval torture devices. One partner is a perverted psychopath who hates women because they all apparently have the good sense NOT to be in a relationship with him (think rabid Star Trek fanboy). The other is in it for the money...and seeing naked women killed through torture. The money guy is eventually "whacked" and is barely mentioned in the novel even before he gets it.
Oddly enough, this isn't the worst novel by the author. "Raw Pain Max" (also written by the author) makes this one look like a fairy tale....it's this story on ten times the sadistic testosterone and one hundred times the blood and gore.
Overall the book is one long torture fest with the heroine's sister, the mafia don's wife (he wanted a divorce), and eventually the heroine herself being tortured in this mysoginistic piece of work. The women are eventually rescued by witchcraft and some other 11th hour plot device (a Thor's Hammer necklace that the heroine's boyfriend wears has a little magic of its own) designed to wrap things up neatly. The good guys live, the bad guys die, etc. etc.
There's a thin excuse for a horror story mixed in with the gratuitous torture. Lucky for the reader, we are spared any details of the rapes that occur in the book. They're usually mentioned in one or two short sentences (ie, "...Bernice was raped again.") unlike the torture sequences that take whole chapters to describe in very excruciating detail.
Buy this book only if you're too cheap to own a VCR or DVD player and rent porn. And if you do, seek psychiatric help. You need it.
Rather extreme sadism but well-plotted and written. Andersson admittedly purges himself of his ideas on sadism (rather like Anne Rice did in her "Beauty" series, though in a much more extreme fashion) and includes witchcraft, snuff videos, Goddess-worship, malignant life after death and a VERY protective Italian Mamma. Not for the weak of stomach, though the Grand Inquisitor would doubtless enjoy it!
Erotic S&M adventure for the truly bent. Man & womand get into trouble with a witch capable of inflicting great pain. Imaginative and well written. Pity it's out of print. I'd like to read more of his work!
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