TORMENTUM

ANDREA BACCI, comic book artist, screenwriter, and director, returns to horror literature with a visceral work that offers no respite. TORMENTUM is more than just a novel of pure gore and ruthless brutality: it is a dark journey into the depths of the Holy Inquisition. Born from the cinematic experience of Welcome to the Torture Museum, the author unearths one of history's blackest chapters to prove that true evil has deep, ancient, and terrifyingly real roots.

A FIVE-CENTURY-LONG CURSE.

15th Century Where it all begins. Under the yoke of the Holy Inquisition, pain was codified as law, and flesh was merely an altar for fanaticism. Here, the TORMENTUM is born a book bound in human skin, holding the very essence of torture.

2023 Four young YouTubers, hungry for fame and tired of failing, decide to make their big break. A night of stolen footage inside the infamous San Gimignano Torture Museum. Amidst the shadows of death machines, sex, and violence, they seek easy success. Instead, they find a horror that cannot be edited: a force that will turn their "special episode" into an inescapable massacre.

2026 After three years of oblivion and forced closure following those tragic events, the Museum's new owner decides to reopen the doors. Official investigations have failed; the mystery remains buried in the silence of the stones. But the truth demands a price. With the help of extraordinary characters, the search for what really happened will bring all the secrets to the surface.

Every question will have an answer. Every sin will be punished. Because the TORMENTUM does not forget... and the Executioner is still waiting.