Diabolical Duets. Diabolical Duets, #3

Duet-Three in the "Diabolical Duets" collection brings us another two tales of female-led fantasy, suspense, and possession. First up is "Rune of Evil" and the tale of a disgraced UK professor, temporarily transplanted to a Madras University. A disgraced professor who immediately becomes prey to a secretive and centuries old and matriarchal sect. The same sect comprised of local Indian females and presided over by a venerable "Patiriyar" acting as the conduit to a vengeful and sadistic female demon.
A demon who rewards her female devotees worship of her by giving them power over the men of their choice. And Achilles Giles-Henry has been chosen to be the first man of another race to be bonded to on by the mysterious. "Rune". This is followed by "The Salon of Madame Feng", Sandrine Bessancort's tale of occult evil, and demonic possession at its most puzzling and inescapable as a visit to Paris with his fiancé to stay with a cousin and his wife by a stuffy and correct Englishman takes on a dangerous edge after the cousin suggests an evening out.An evening to be spent in company with the Chinese mystic, Madame Feng, at her Paris salon.
A disturbingly compelling Chinese woman and her unnaturally powerful and exceptionally loyal Parisian housekeeper who are about to change the stuffy Englishman's life! 2-Believable fantasy and female-led tales of occult possession and human bondage in the style of the early 20th Century masters of the genre, for the reader who enjoys having the imagination tweaked rather than bludgeoned.