Three tales of female supremacy over the male open with “The Landlady”, by Gillian Ormendroyd, as she 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 high that comes with complete control! Next up is Rafael Menton's "A Long and Permanent Fall", as the wife of an affluent man leaves him for another after twenty-years and tells him by way of a note that she is leaving with her new man and transferring to her company’s office in Berlin. Devastated by this totally unexpected bombshell the abandoned husband finds himself alone in his Dulwich home with the live-in East African housekeeper his wife had employed a year or so before leaving... A large and powerful woman who has plans for him... Plans that do not include his freedom! Concluding our triad is Sandrine Bessancort's, "The Salon of Madame Feng", as she describes how a straitlaced and pompous Englishman, visiting his married Parisienne cousin with his fiancé, is taken against his better judgment to the salon of the mystic and spiritual Madame Feng for and evening, his cousin assures him, that will live long in his memory... A prophecy that proves entirely correct as the meeting of Ralph Eastcliffe with the eponymous Madame Feng Tang and her monstrous housekeeper, Mathilde, not only dismantles his upcoming marriage and everything else in his life but reveals to him who he truly is as a man... A discovery that will be as long lasting as it will be humbling! Ms Ormendroyd is the author of the classic, “A Female-Led Marriage; while Mr Menton is the writer of the cult favourite, "Madame Fabienne; while Sandrine Bessancort is the author of “The Horla Revisited”, “Ancient Sorceries Revisited”, and a host of re-imagined classics along with originals of her own.