The Bloody Chamber: And Different Tales: Seventy fifth-Anniversary Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Version)

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. Okay. Rowling, Kelly Hyperlink, and different modern masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which incorporates the story that’s the foundation of Neil Jordan’s 1984 film The Firm of Wolves—she spins subversively darkish and sensual variations of acquainted fairy tales and legends like “Little Pink Driving Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Magnificence and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a method steeped within the romantic trappings of the gothic custom.

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