Dangerous Females - Book One

Book-One in the "Dangerous Females" collection from Rafael Menton brings you two illustrated and female-led tales of warped femininity and occult authority.

Our first tale is "Caversham's Descent".

The year is 1955 and, exiting Victoria station on his return home from work, the headline waiting to greet him at a news-stand tells of riots in Egypt and the collapse of his investment there and the loss of his quarterly dividend. Devasted, he decides to wait until the next day to contact the English friend in Alexandria looking after his interests there. Only to find when he wakes from a fitful sleep the following morning, that he is¿ Already there! What follows will be a waking nightmare and a re-acquaintance with a woman who insists she has known him for centuries - and in the most intimate of ways¿ A woman of some power who now wants him back!

Next we have, "A Chinese Horror".

We return to the period of post-Suez London, and the tale of how a highly-regarded heart surgeon makes visual acquaintance with a woman of indeterminate ethnic background at a party and finds his life spiralling out of control. Which is when he receives a letter from a professor and old friend, recently returned from mainland China after one of his frequent trips to acquire both knowledge and antiquities. A letter inviting him to dinner at a Hampstead address¿ An invitation that will lead to the end of his life as both a doctor and a man!

If you enjoy stories that trigger the darker erotic areas of the imagination and like tales of assertive women that are believable as well as dark, you are likely to delight in 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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