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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

Who reads The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)?

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