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The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Carter, Angela is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber —which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves —she 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. Review“Since I first came across The Bloody Chamber , I have kept a copy with me wherever I have been living. . . . The things that I needed, when I was beginning to think about writing short stories, were the things that I found in The Bloody Chamber. . . . Reading Carter, each time, [is] electrifying. It [lights] up the readerly brain and all the writerly nerves. . . . What we don’t have, of course, is any more Angela Carter stories. And how I yearn for exactly this.” — Kelly Link, from the Introduction “Her masterpiece . . . Sex isn’t a subtext in The Bloody Chamber, but the t

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Carter, Angela
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published
1979
Language
EN
ISBN
9780143107613
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Others
Rating
4.02 / 5 (525 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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