Book-Two in the "Capitulations" collection from Rafael Menton, contains 2-tales of horror, the occult, and the female-led.

First up is "An Enduring Bewitchment", as 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, we have "The Dark Depths", in which a young and academically gifted undergrad; a learned ex-cop; and a Japanese heiress; all have one thing in common… A recently unearthed tome called the "Book of Witches"… A book with a previously undeciphered incantation that could mean tyranny, suppression, and a complete loss of independence if it is invoked… Especially for men.

If you like tales of assertive women who are both erotic and believable, without being too obvious, you are likely to enjoy 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, suspense and horror with erotic undertones. Fiction by authors ranging from Doyle and Blackwood and on to Rohmer – as well as sometimes indulging in a more contemporary take on the work of those masters.

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