Found 74 results for "Torture in fiction"
Le fantôme de l'opéra
by Gaston Leroux
IT was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.
The Miserable Mill
by Lemony Snicket
Sometime during your life-in fact, very soon-you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's firs...
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis, Mariano Antolín Rato
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner o...
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Robert Maturin
John Melmoth, student at Trinity College, Dublin, having journeyed to County Wicklow for attendance at the deathbed of h...
Discipline and Punish
by Michel Foucault, mechil foucault
On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide condemmed 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris...
The Running Man
by Stephen King
She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window.
The marrow of tradition
by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Though only a twenty-three-year-old African American school principal in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he made thes...
Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk
When the bus pulls to the corner where Comrade Snarky had agreed to wait, she stands there in an army-surplus flak jacke...
Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
IT TOOK ME a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the h...
Inversions
by Iain Banks
Master, it was in the evening of the third day of the southern planting season that the questioner's assistant came for ...
Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete...
by Barrett Harper Clark, Barrett H. Clark
The Torturer's Apprentice
by John Biguenet
IT BEGAN AS chafing, a patch of dry skin, in the palm of his left hand.
