Volume-Two 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 ways she dominates the men in her life.

First we have, "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.

Next up is "Tanisha the Sorceress".

We go back to 1932 to describe the fate of a man while travelling to India at the invitation of a friend and now disgraced professor. 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.

Finally, we have "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.

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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