Dangerous Females - Book Two

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

Our first tale is "A Woman of Haiti".

It is 1911, and a respected Professor and most keenly felt man-of-learning is invited to a gathering at a friend's in order to witness the "gift" of a young woman visiting from the Caribbean. The prospect does not sit well with him, but he agrees to put in an appearance after being informed his fiancé will also be attending to witness their friend's latest star-turn and practitioner of mesmerism. Made cynical by his insistence upon empirical evidence and a thoroughgoing incredulity when it comes to the mystical and magical beliefs, he accepts the challenge of the young island woman and allows her to try and put him under her mesmeric spell¿ A decision he will regret until his dying day, as his privileged life is dismantled about his head in the most ignominious of ways...

Mr Menton's second tale 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 live become one long round of duty and service to Tanisha the Sorceress.

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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