“The Landlady” by Gillian Ormendroyd is the first tale in a collection of short and illustrated female-led misadventures. A tale of service and submission that takes us back to the world of the mid-sixties and the fate of a successful writer who takes lodgings on a deserted beach outside Whitby in order to write with veracity on the locale of Bram Stoker’s perennial classic of vampiric horror as he sets about giving it a more modern and erotic twist. Only to find himself immersed in a real-life tale of possession and human bondage at the hands – and feet – of the formidable Dutch widow who herself has a passion for the erotic. A warped and depraved passion! Ms Ormendroyd is the author of “A Female-Led Marriage.