The Torturer

by Peter Saxon, Victor Kalin (Illustrator)

A film crew starts shooting in Spain on the grounds of Castle Delmorte. The ghost of The Torturer returns and torments the cast and crew.

Genres: Horror, Fiction

158 pages

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Peter Saxon was a house pseudonym used by various authors of British pulp fiction, among them W Howard Baker (Danger Ahead 1958, The Killing Bone 1968 and Vampire's Moon 1972); Rex Dolphin (The Vampires of Finistère 1968); Stephen D Frances (The Disorientated Man aka Scream and Scream Again 1966, Black Honey 1968, and Corruption 1968); Wilfred McNeilly (The Darkest Night 1966, Dark Ways to Death 1966, Satan's Child 1967, The Torturer 1967, and The Haunting of Alan Mais 1969); Ross Richards (Through the Dark Curtain 1968); and Martin Thomas (The Curse of Rathlaw 1968).

Reviews

[N.N. Heaven · Rating 5 out of 5]

A creepy story about a haunted house and those that come to stay there. Brilliant and highly recommend! It's hard to find but if you can get your hands on one, read it!

My Rating: 5 stars

[Dirk Dursty · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fairly readable pulp quickie but that’s about it. The writing itself is pretty amateur - excessive repetitive phrases and words (sometimes within the same sentence) and gems such as “like a beheaded chicken unable to make up her mind”. It’s published under a blanket pseudonym but these “Peter Saxon” novels seem to share the same blanket mediocrity. (See? Now I’m writing just like the author of the book!)

[Mark H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, not great. A pulpy horror that would have made a diverting sixties, Italian horror movie. All very tame now and lazily refering to ‘horrors’ without detailing them. As usual for this era (early seventies) there’s more details about female anatomy and desire than there is about the torture and the horror. A decent enough page-turner from W Howard Baker and Wilfred McNeilly, writing under the shared pen name of ‘Peter Saxon’.

[Alan John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reads like the script of a Hammer type film from 1971. A film crew stumble upon a ramshackle castle in the wilds of Spain. After discovering a walled up tomb of mummified bodies, the sinister Conde Delmorte appears on the scene...

[Kristine · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Shawna Tinker · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book should not even be available.
I honor freedom of speech.
But to sell books based off Female Rape and Torture...
That is beyond freedom of speech.
Manny Cortez used this book as a foundation on his Adolescent Sexuality.
He used this as a road map to Tape and Murder.
These things should not be allowed to be sold.
You definately do not want this book to be available in a Household with Children.
Many found this book on his Uncles Nightstand at 10 years old.
Kids read our see things and experience things that compound in the Adolescent Brain that can trigger these compulsions.
Why do purple think it is acceptable to make a living on something that promotes Rape and Torture ?