I thought that the Bram Stoker Cat / Kitten story was called "The Iron Maiden (or" Virgin")",after the eponymous torture apparatus featured therein ??
          Anyway,I seem to recall a P C Wren ( "Beau Geste") story about a sadistic NCO who messed with the honour of a Private's girlfriend....The Private,an Oriental and a tattooist, I believe,somehow got the NCO in a trap,drugged or whatever,and whilst he was out cold,completely tattooed his entire nose a deep black !!
             There was another one,by the same author,about tying up the prisoner,laying him on his back,then putting a large rat ,under a brass bowl,on his stomach,and putting hot coals on top of the bowl----guess how the terrified, hyperthermic rat escapes !! Uuggh !