WELCOME TO ARLINGTON ASYLUM, A PLACE WHERE THE INSANE AND THE FORGOTTEN ARE BROUGHT TO DIEAdrian James is running from his past with nothing left to live for. At rock bottom, with a blade to his wrist, a mysterious stranger intervenes and offers him a chance at salvation.Adrian accepts, and he enters Arlington Asylum of his own free will. Once inside, however, he soon learns that he will never … however, he soon learns that he will never escape. And worse, there are strange experiments taking place here, and a secretive medicine is being administered, one that causes certain… changes… in the patients.
The insidious secrets within the halls of Arlington Asylum are slowly revealed, and it is beyond anything Adrian could have possibly imagined. A literal hell is unleashed as impossible and terrifying creatures indulge their sadistic desires.
Adrian and his friends must escape this nightmarish place and warn the outside world before it’s too late, but they must face down the demons of hell to do so.
TORMENTED is a gruesome and violent horror story, influenced by such greats as John Carpenter’s THE THING, Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER, and Jeremy Gillespie’s THE VOID.
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An interesting original twist, with nightmare creatures in abundance. The author brings Bosche paintings to life in what first appear to be nightmares of mentally anguished individuals–that turn out to be much more. No happy ending or resolution here, instead a Mobius strip of never ending torment. Not for the faint of heart.
Lee Mountford is seriously underrated in this Genre.
If you enjoy Horror, and I mean true Horror then you will Love Tormented.
To be honest I’ve read everything he’s written and everything is great. Looking forward to Perron Manor!
Wow! This book was a gorey crazy ride into horror! Did I say “crazy”? Yeah, you have to be crazy out of your mind to be a patient in Arlington Asylum as that is what kind of people mostly reside there.
Welcome to Arlington Asylum – place that harbors crazies from all walks of life, but then there are some that are not wrapped around the bend and are actually sane.
Adrian James was close to taking his own life until he was rescued by a man named Isaac Templeton. At the time Adrian didn’t know what to expect when Isaac came into his life, but Isaac promised to make him better as long as he would come stay at a place where they could administer a new medicine that was sure to cure all.
Little does Adrian know that he has just stepped into his worst nightmare and that the place he is staying in is an asylum. The new medicine that is suppose to be a cure is far from what was promised and the medicine is doing some strange things to the patients.
When Adrian sees something that is beyond his imagination he cannot figure out if he is having a hallucination or if it is real as a mutated monster is roaming the halls of the asylum and it goes into a rage turning the asylum into a gore fest. But that is the least of Adrian’s worries as when he finds out there are more of those creatures he wonders along with the rest of the patients if they will be ever make it out of the asylum alive!
What kind of creature does Adrian see? Where did it come from? Why are there creatures roaming the halls of the asylum? Does Adrian along with the other patients make it out alive? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book!
The book moved at a fast pace once I hit the 30% mark and as I hit the 50% mark it took off like lightning as I could hardly put it down! This was a gorey romp into insanity all the way to the end of the book! Other characters are in the book as well that come into play through most of the book and everything moves super fast when the creatures make an appearance.
Author Lee Mountford knows how to turn a perfectly docile asylum into a gore infested romp! The book literally explodes with bloody gore through the last half of the book which takes this book into the extreme realms of hell! Buckle up readers as you are in for one gorey ride! Giving this book five bloody stars!
If you love the movie “Hellraiser” you should love this book. Set in an insane asylum in the 1950’s, you expect it to be horrific. However, I was not prepared for the level of detailed gore in the book. In my opinion, it wasn’t a horror story as much as a gore fest. I would only recommend this book to those who have a very strong stomach and can tolerate the level of torture depicted in the book.
The idea behind the story was interesting and I would have preferred to know more about the characters and why they were in the asylum in the first place. Instead, the author chose to continuous gross out the listener with his detailed descriptions of torture and gore. I also would have liked more detail of the group running this asylum and their purpose in unleashing Hell.
The narrator did a great job and his performance was perfect for this book. I was given the chance to listen to the audiobook version of this book by the author/narrator/publisher and chose to review it.
Extremely graphic and not for the faint of heart. This gives you gore aplenty. This book will stay with you long after you read it. For sure, a book to give people nightmares. Very Lovecraftian feel to it. I loved it!!!