Fireside Ghost Stories for Valentine's Day: An Anthology of Romantic Tales

Romance has always had a dark side: something sinister, possessive, even fatal lurks behind the desire to attract and be attracted. For centuries something spiritual - even supernatural - has been suspected in the ways of lovers in the night. Shakespeare called love-making "the beast with two backs"; in many ages the monomaniacal lust of a man for one woman has been blamed on witchcraft; the French refer to the sleep that follows intercourse as "le petite mort" - the little death. There is ...