Pagan X
Substitute "knocked unconscious from behind with a gun butt or sap" for fainting and your heroine is now a hard-boiled gumshoe.
I just finished Peacock's "Nightmare Abbey" (1818). Yes, the feminist radical dark-haired Goth girl is still going strong, 190 years later! It was a delightful parody then and holds up very well now.
Back to the Five of Swords: I find it a very intriguing card in that it brings to my mind the question of how we may betray ourselves in romantic/erotic misalliances; so very often the hottest boys are the baddest (and also the girls).
Another question is: why do we assume the werewolf is male?
An interesting story about a strange couple from Transylvania from The Phantom Ship (1839) by Frederick Marryat:
http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a0077.pdf
I just finished Peacock's "Nightmare Abbey" (1818). Yes, the feminist radical dark-haired Goth girl is still going strong, 190 years later! It was a delightful parody then and holds up very well now.
Back to the Five of Swords: I find it a very intriguing card in that it brings to my mind the question of how we may betray ourselves in romantic/erotic misalliances; so very often the hottest boys are the baddest (and also the girls).
Another question is: why do we assume the werewolf is male?
An interesting story about a strange couple from Transylvania from The Phantom Ship (1839) by Frederick Marryat:
http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a0077.pdf