Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Author(s): Angela Carter

Fiction.

From the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious' mysteries ...lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glitter and haunt - strange nuggets from a writer whose wayaward pen spills forth stylish, erotic, nightmarish jewels of prose - the old fairy stories live and breathe again, subtly altered, subtly changed.


Product Information

October 2014 sees the publication of the Vintage Magic collection: nine mesmerizing novels that explore all aspects of the supernatural and the fantastical. 'They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, grey members of a congregation of nightmare'

"The Bloody Chamber's interweaving of retold fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's narrative gift at its most mocking and seductive" Observer "Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality" -- Ian McEwan "Angela Carter has extended the life and richness of the fable form itself partly through language that is both pellucid and sensual, but chiefly through imagination of such Ariel reach that she can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales" The Times "Extraordinary and beautiful" -- Peter Redgrove

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992

General Fields

  • : 9780099593881
  • : Vintage
  • : Vintage Classics
  • : September 2014
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Angela Carter
  • : Paperback
  • : Dec-14
  • : 823.914
  • : 176