With this compilation of atmospheric terror and possession, we are taken us back once more to the late-nineteenth-century and then forward to the first half of the twentieth.
And the figures of evil, decadence, and horror, are NOT men!
"Madame Solange", with Stephen Glover writing as Rafe Linnell, brings us the tale of two friends, living in a sleepy English village between the wars, whose lives are turned on their heads when one of them confesses to a murder he committed while living in Paris A murder committed at the behest of an evil and mesmeric landlady whose clutches he subsequently escaped by returning to England A demonic and controlling landlady who has found him and wants him back!
The second of our misadventures is Sandrine D' Honfleur's homage to Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Shaming of Purbeck", as a Victorian doctor and chemist sets himself the task of using science to eradicate the evil at the heart of the human beast A human beast who takes womanly-form when he experiments on his unwitting housekeeper And unleashes a female horror who lives only to exert her power over those her flesh touches!