Editors Choice – May 2022

With this first edition in the Cave’s “Editor’s Choice” collection you can enjoy three classic tales of wives gone to the dark-side and the husbands they subdue for less than a half of their retail price.

The first of the trio is Rafael Menton’s “Adhira Khatri”, and a tale of marital betrayal, interracial femdom and murder… Thomas Hudson has been betrayed by the people closest to him and exacted a suitably physical retribution. A retribution that has led to the loss of both his freedom and his young daughter. Anger that soon became weakness and fear during a terrifying stay in prison. fear and weakness the Indian woman with fantasies of control who had his neighbour was about to use to her advantage… To fashion him into the kind of Englishman of whom she had always dreamed!

Our second tale is “A Very English Chattel”, Shruti Jalav’s tale, translated from the original Hindi, the story of a young Indian woman with plain looks and a body that would not be out of place on a Venus. A Varanasi housekeeper with sexual demons and fantasies she is more than willing to embrace who sees an opportunity to satisfy them when she takes up a live-in position in the home of a man devastated by his wife’s betrayal of him with one of her students. An Oxbridge academic with his tail between his legs who has secured a stint as a lecturer at an Indian university in an attempt to put distance between himself and the source of his emotional distress… Only to find that the legs he will soon find himself between will belong to another and he will be on his knees at their feet!

Completing the triad is Vera Carlisle’s “Property of Ms Zaynab”, and the horrific – yet perversely erotic – tale of a man betrayed by his wife to an Arab businesswoman in the very worst of ways. An Arab businesswoman who contracts him to project manage a huge development funded by her own company and has him travel to the middle-east to oversee it. Only for the handsome husband to find his younger Arab employer has a more sinister and humiliating purpose in mind for him than overseeing her project… A purpose from which he will not escape whole!

Three discounted classics of warped femininity and subjugated manhood.