Past Submissions... and Others

With "Past Submissions… and Others", Rafael Menton brings us three female-led tales of occult possession and infernal human-bondage. It's Paris in the year of 1927 and at a party celebrating the first solo flight of the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh a Parisian playboy is about to have his wings clipped for all eternity by a strange Romanian woman with a passion for the exercise of personal authority and her even more passionate and commanding female assistant. In the year of 1932 a man travels to India at the invitation of a friend and now disgraced professor. The traveller 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 deviant queen looked upon by the women of her time as a kind of early and vengeful feminist… And one the three friends are about to see rise again! A financially secure London bachelor in his forties finds himself drawn to a strange bookshop to be confronted by a large Latina woman who disturbs him for some reason… A large, feline, and formidable woman he swears he has not seen until now but who also looks alarmingly familiar and triggers within him certain discomfiting and terrifying flashbacks… Flashbacks that are about to become all too real! Inside you will find: "Rodica Cel Tradat"; "Tanisha the Sorceress"; and "A Past Submission"; by Rafael Menton 3-Retro and female-led tales of past lives and occult possession. 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 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.