Acquiescence - Book Two

The second book in the "Acquiescence" collection of female-led fiction from Rafael Menton contains two illustrated works of horror, crime, and possession.

The first of our stories is, "Tanisha the Sorceress".

It is 1932 and the fate of a man while travelling to India at the invitation of a friend and now disgraced professor is about to reveal itself. The traveller - and dilettante dabbler in the collector of antiquities and Eastern culture, in question - is told of yet another friend and archaeologist who has found madness and despair in his search for the tomb of an Indian peasant queen previously thought mythical. A supposedly evil and sexually deviant queen looked upon by the women of her time as a kind of early and vengeful feminist. It will fall to him and his disgraced friend to try and discover the truth of what happened to the third member of their triad and, in doing so place their mortal souls in danger of the most terrifying and lasting kind¿ For all is not right and the men are surrounded by both betrayal and perversion that, if not acted upon, will see their lives become one long round of duty and service to Tanisha the Sorceress.

Our second tale is, "Bad Move".

A good cop with sexual demons who is about to go bad, comes face to face with a woman who has been in that condition for a long time. A wealthy Arab woman with secrets of the most repellent kind he is about to try and blackmail. Only to find he will be the one who finds himself at her mercy and that of her two female assistants... And in a far more permanent way.

If you like tales of assertive women who are both erotic and believable, without being too obvious, you are likely to enjoy this collection of stories from a female-led perspective on the subject of crime, horror, the occult and the bondage of man to woman.

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.

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