Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction
Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction

Author: Toni Reed

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0813150493

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The hero of the story is a demonic lover -- dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine -- beautiful, and innocent -- willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interest those concerned with gender role conflicts in literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written texts of folklore and formal literature.

The Demon Lover
The Demon Lover

Author: Dion Fortune

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1609252918

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A secretary finds herself psychically bound to her boss in this supernatural thriller from one of the leading luminaries of twenieth-century esoteric thought. The Demon Lover was first published in 1927, the same year as H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. Dion Fortune was among a generation of occult horror writers that formed popular culture’s obsession with secret societies, vampires, demons, ritual magic, and dark powers lurking in the shadows. What sets Fortune apart from so many of her contemporaries is her deep knowledge of the inner workings of magical orders, rites, and practices, and her own freethinking on occult subjects, demonstrated in the classic Psychic Self-Defense and The Mystical Qabalah. When young Veronica Mainwaring is hired by Justin Lucas as his secretary, she has no idea that she will soon find herself being used as his own personal trance medium. With an invisible collar keeping her bound to Lucas, her every attempt at escape is foiled by a yank on the unseen chain. Veronica soon finds herself trapped in Lucas’ quest for power and knowledge beyond the earthly plane as a story of past lives, hidden evils, and a twisted love affair come to life in this occult thriller. “A convincingly unsettling book. Fortune evokes a world of powers that can threaten you; that are both part of a coherent moral mythology, and also cloaked in mystery. Things are unpredictable, though there is an order to them . . . It’s not a book for every taste, maybe. But it’s worth a look, for a distinctive handling of magic and its overlap with the everyday world.” —Black Gate

Incubus
Incubus

Author: Carol Goodman

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0091940184

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Ever since moving to Fairwick to take up a teaching past at the local college, Callie has been having vivid, erotic dreams about a man made out of moonlight and shadows.

Demon Lover
Demon Lover

Author: Bonnie Dee

Publisher: Samhain Publishing

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609280147

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Rumplestiltskin is "not" his name--and this hunk's no gnarled old goblin, in this second novel of Fairytale Fantasies.