Three tales of female-led fantasy fiction involving housekeepers ? along with crime, possession, and the occult - include Rafael Menton's "A Romanian Housekeeper", his short tale of how a thirty-something virgin from a small village in Romania takes up employment in the UK as the housekeeper of a writer on the Channel coast... And takes him over also!

Sandrine D' Honfleur's "The Shaming of Purbeck" pays homage to Robert Louis Stevenson with her tale of how a scientist's experiments on his unknowing housekeeper create a physical and psychological horror beyond his control.

The third of our tales is Maurice Reynard's "The Housekeeper", in which a Victorian husband's poisoning of his wealthy and domineering wife is discovered by his late-wife's maid and housekeeper... A younger woman even more warped and domineering.

Believable female-led fantasy fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.