Three tales from Rafael Menton comprise this volume of occult psychological horror and female supremacy from the past.
Read on as a highly-regarded heart surgeon and confirmed bachelor attends a party and makes a fleeting visual and physical acquaintance with a woman of an, initially, indeterminate ethnic background... And, though he is not to know it at the time, loses his life to her the moment her unusual scent enters his nostrils..
A somewhat smug and cynical Professor has his world turned on his head by a mesmerist visiting from the Carribean... Turned so much, in fact, his upcoming marriage becomes a memory as he finds himself compelled to follow the woman back to her island home... An island upon which he will NOT be a Professor!
Finally, another cynical Londoner enters a strange Charing Cross Road bookshop and finds himself confronted by a large and powerful Latina woman... An encounter that sees him transported back to a time and a place of which he has no recollection... Not even of the beguilingly feline young woman who claims him as her own!
This volume contains:
"A Depraved Condessa"; "Revisiting A Woman of Haiti"; and "A Past Submission".
Believable female-led fantasy fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.
Rafael Menton is a Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery, crime, suspense, and horror with erotic undertones; ranging from Doyle and Blackwood and on to Rohmer - as well as sometimes indulging in a more contemporary take of his own on the work of those masters.
