Revisiting Luella MIller

Another of Sandrine Bessancort's revised and extended editions of her re-imagined tales from the classics, sees the early 20th century work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman receiving the treatment of female-led fantasy from Ms Bessancort's gifted pen.   Read on, as "e;Revisiting Luella Miller"e; transports us to the Eastern Seaboard of the US, at a time when Edgar Alan Poe is enjoying a renewed popularity with the reading public and a Baltimore journalist is sent to interview an aged but still scandalous woman. A woman from a small town at the edge of the Atlantic, with a story to tell likely to please his editor and titillate his newspaper's demanding circulation and its hunger for the sensational.The aged woman in question one the young journalist listens to and becomes more and more certain her story of depraved and inexplicable evil is just what his editor and his readership are looking for.If he ever gets to write it in its original form, that is.For the more he hears the still vibrant and youthful eighty-year-old tell her story; the more horrified he is at the events of obsession and female evil related to him.Even as he finds himself enthralled by them.Unaware that in the process of hearing it he himself is about to become enthralled in the worst of ways by the old woman's imperious niece.Another revised and extended version of Sandrine Bessancort's re-imagined tales from antiquity; in which women show men they are not only their equals but, and more often than not, by far their superior when it comes to intelligence, willpower, manipulation and… depravity.Sandrine Bessancort writes highly-regarded believable female-led fantasy fiction after the style of authors varying from: Doyle, de Maupassant, Blackwood, and Sax Rohmer – amongst others.Sandrine lives in Honfleur with her husband and is a Sorbonne educated graduate in the classics of New World and European Literature. eBook length: 20k-words.