Rafael Menton Presents... Volume One

Volume-One in this collection of Rafael Menton's female-led fiction contains three works of horror, mind-control, and the occult.

We open with "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.

The second of Mr Menton's tales is "A Chinese Horror".

We go back to the fifties and post-Suez London as 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¿ And an invitation that will lead to the end of his life as both a doctor and a man!

The third and final tale is "Tanisha the Sorceress".

It is 1932 and an English man of means and leisure travels to India at the invitation of a friend and now disgraced professor. The traveller - and dilettante dabbler in the collection of antiquities and Eastern culture - 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.

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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