Rafael Menton brings us "A Shock To His System" and the tale of how the bequest of a house and a sizable annuity from a deceased aunt effects huge changes in the mindset of a previously loving wife. Especially when she takes receipt of a document in her aunt's hand that details her relationship with the man she had always called "Uncle" and thought so distinguished and masculine… A document that will change the life of her own recently bankrupted and unemployed husband in ways beyond his wildest dreams.

A story of human bondage and marital love gone wrong.mind control, and sexual depravity of the feminine kind.

Rafael Menton is a UK-based Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery, crime, suspense, and horror & romance with erotic female-led undertones. Mr Menton's literary tastes range from Doyle and Blackwood and on to Rohmer – as well as sometimes indulging in a more contemporary and everyday take of his own on the work of those masters that enables the reader to bring his/her own imagination to the story being read.