Tag: Pressing

• Oh, the Pain! The Pain!

  I blame Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, for my interest in torture. Who can ever forget that wonderful scene of immurement in “The Cask of Amontillado”? What a delicious way in which to exact revenge on those who slight you. Too bad we don’t have catacombs beneath our houses today. The practice of torture, in my…

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  October 26, 2023

  Torture

  Brazen Bull, Burning alive, Edgar Allan Poe, Heretic’s Fork, immurement, impalement, Inflicting pain, Judas Cradle, oubliette, Pressing, Swedish Drink, Torture, torture devices, Vlad the Impaler