Full name: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories

Author: Angela Carter Year: 1979 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Short Stories, Award winners, Horror Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Barns&Noble Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140178210 014017821X

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and Kelly Link, who introduces this edition of Carter's most celebrated book, published for the seventy-fifth anniversary of her birth. In The Bloody Chamber - which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves - Carter spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like "Little Red Riding Hood," "Bluebeard," "Puss in Boots," and "Beauty and the Beast," giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. Similar books: Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter A Wild Swan by Michael Cunningham Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Dreams of Dark and Light by Tanith Lee Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt The Emperor of Dreams by Clark Ashton Smith Vampires In The Lemon Grove by Karen Russell Innocents Aboard by Gene Wolfe Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser The Werewolf by Angela Carter The Devil and the Deep by Ellen Datlow The Golgotha Dancers by Manly Wade Wellman Ponies by Kij Johnson