Nightmares In Gossamer - Volume Four

Volume-Four in the "Nightmares In Gossamer" collection contains three illustrated works of female-led fiction from Rafael Menton on the subject of the controlling woman and the many different way she dominates the men in her life.

First we have, "An Enduring Bewitchment".

The arrival of an intimidating new female neighbour across from a somewhat reclusive writer, coincides with the delivery of a manuscript and a letter. A letter from the solicitor of a now deceased father Jeremy Culshaw has not seen since he deserted both him and his mother some thirty-eight tears before. It is a manuscript that will test the son's credulity while both appalling and revolting him as it tells of a family curse and the danger in which it places him. A curse, if real, in which he senses the huge and seductive Latina woman now living across from him will play a leading part¿ And then her daughter arrives¿

Next up is ""True Drama".

An ageing actor, touring the UK in an Alan Ayckbourn production, comes face to face with a drama that is as unbelievable as it is real at his lodgings in Guildford. A two-week stay for the duration of the play that is going to prove far more enduring and far more¿ demanding¿ Especially if the two strangely compelling Indian women, who are housekeeper and mistress at his lodgings, have their perverse and life-changing way.

Finally we have, "A Long and Permanent Fall".

The wife of an affluent man leaves him for another after twenty-years and tells him by way of a note explaining she and her lover are transferring to her company's office in Berlin and have already flown to Germany. Devastated by this totally unexpected bombshell he finds himself alone in his Dulwich home with the live-in East African housekeeper his wife had employed a year or so before leaving. A large and powerful woman who has plans for him¿ Plans that do not include his freedom!

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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