The Manservant - 2026 Edition

Rafael Menton brings us the revised & extended version of his believable domestic fantasy, "The Manservant".

Read on as a wrongly accused former teacher; imprisoned, divorced, and estranged from both the wife he still loves together with his daughters, struggles with depression when, upon his release from a terrifying spell in a maximum-security facility.

His life made no better when the knowledge kicks in that he is not only friendless and unemployed but about to made homeless by his local council in London.

Which is when he sees an ad seeking a man for a live-in position in affluent Blackheath.

 An ad run by an African couple who, it seems, are looking to give a chance of rehabilitation to a man just like him.

And on a long-term basis.

The chance they are offering him being to become their…

You guessed – now see if you can guess the rest!

A tale of dark but believable romance, manipulation and psychological tension in domestic setting.

Rafael Menton is a UK-based Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery and crime, together with horror and romance with exotic over-and-undertones. Mr Menton's literary tastes 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.