Category: Sherlock
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He Watches, He Hungers, He Takes: 5 Reasons Why Voyeurism Is the New Victorian Vice
He Watches, He Hungers, He Takes: 5 Reasons Why Voyeurism Is the New Victorian Vice We think of the Victorians as buttoned-up, tea-sipping moralists—but behind those corsets and cravats, my dear, pulsed an insatiable hunger for the forbidden. And what’s more forbidden than watching… and being watched? In today’s spotlight: voyeurism. Not the creepy kind…
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Velvet Masks & Velvet Touches: 12 Reasons We’re Drawn to the Hidden Heat of Victorian Masquerades
There’s something deliciously dangerous about a mask. It whispers promises behind a velvet veil. Secrets on the tip of a tongue. The way candlelight flickers off a silk domino mask… the way anonymous eyes trace the curve of a forbidden collarbone… the way your gloved hand just happens to brush a stranger’s in passing. Victorian…
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Moaning Walls and Whispers at Midnight: 7 Ways Ghosts Can Know Your Body Intimately
Is it the wind—or something wilder? Moaning Walls and Whispers at Midnight: 7 Ways Ghosts Can Know Your Body Intimately There’s a moment in the dead of night when the walls seem to breathe, the shadows whisper your name, and your body tingles like it’s being watched… or worse, touched. Ghost stories have long thrilled…
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Lust and Crime in Sherlock Holmes’ Victorian London: Why I Wrote the Spicy Sherlock Holmes Stories
I’ve always had a fascination with Sherlock’s ability to come to detailed, sophisticated conclusions about people and their lifestyles with just a glance. An additional appeal was that the mysteries were mind-bending, often paranormal situations that end up with realistic explanations. When I researched real paranormal-like phenomena and what the cause of those apparent supernatural…