Luella Miller... Plus-1

"Luella Miller… Plus-1" brings us two dark, fantasy and female-led, tales of possession and evil.

Sandrine Bessancort's "Luella Miller Revisited", is set during the early years of the twentieth-century where the fiction of Edgar Allen Poe is undergoing a renewed popularity. Explaining why a young and ambitious Baltimore journalist is sent to the provinces by his editor. An editor in search of a story likely to satisfy the need for sensation craved by his newspaper's circulation… What the young journalist discovers is certainly that, but what he also finds is a tale of murder, depravity, and human-bondage… And, in the process, ensure the life he knows and loves is given over to another.

We complete the volume with Rafe Linnell's "Madame Solange", as the lives of two friends in a sleepy English village between the wars are turned on their heads when one of them confesses to a murder he committed while living in Paris. A murder committed at the behest of an evil, mesmeric, and erotically warped landlady whose clutches he subsequently escaped by returning to England… A demonic and sexually controlling landlady for whom nothing matters but the control that slakes her warped thirst… Control she is determined to exercise over the handsome Englishman once again now she has found him.

2-Books of dark female-led fantasy and misadventure for those readers with a desire to have a light shone on the more… outré …corners of their imaginations.