Encouraged by the reading and success of El Monje (CD 4) (GOT 3) by M.G. Lewis, Hoffmann matures the idea of The Devil's Elixirs, to put on paper in just over a month - in a kind of trance on the verge of insanity - the shocking story, told in the first person, of the life of the monk Medardo , who comes to the world marked by the stigma of a cursed seed, whose origin dates back to a horrible and unspeakable crime committed by one of his ancestors. But, despite the fact that his tormented conscience leads him little by little towards the labyrinth of madness, his future is not completely sealed, since there is always a glimmer of freedom that, with the help of divine grace, allows him to fight to reach your salvation.
