Austin Spradlin

Horror

Tormented

Summer, 1998. At a remote summer camp called Redville, located in Redville Kentucky, two counselors are brutally murdered by one of the campers, twelve-year-old Ryan Blevins who snapped after being bullied. He’s caught, convicted, and sent to prison—his name becoming little more than a dark memory buried with the camp. Twenty-eight years later in 2026, the camp has been transformed into a secluded cabin resort. A woman in the middle of a messy divorce decides to take a family vacation with her teenage children and her parents, hoping one month away from everything might benefit their mental health. On their first day there, Ryan is being transported to another prison when disaster strikes. The bus crashes. He was the only survivor. He escaped. And he’s heading back to the place where it all began. Now, a family vacation becomes a fight for survival as old wounds, new secrets, and a familiar killer collide. Tormented serves as a literary love letter to late 1970s and 1980s slasher films filled with gore, sex, twists and heartbreak.