The bloody chamber and other stories

Angela Carter First published 1979

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • fairy tales
  • fiction
  • fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, short stories (single author)
  • manners and customs
  • short stories