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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Angela Carter

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 36241 Users | 3147 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories
ISBN:	014017821X (ISBN13: 9780140178210)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Cheltenham Prize for Literature (1979)

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Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and Kelly Link, who introduces this edition of Carter's most celebrated book, published for the seventy-fifth anniversary of her birth.

In The Bloody Chamber - which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves - Carter 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.

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Title	:	The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Author	:	Angela Carter
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	1990 by Penguin Books (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Fairy Tales. Gothic. Feminism

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"My father lost me to The Beast at cards." A recent discussion with Konstantin-one of my best friends in Goodreads- prompted me to read this collection a little sooner than I had planned. And it was an utterly fascinating experience. I knew I was going to love it and my expectations were justifiably high. 10 exceptional short stories paying homage to classic fairy tales and especially to Charles Perrault. From ''Bluebeard'' and ''The Beauty and the Beast'' to ''Puss -in- Boots'' and ''The Snow

"The Marquis stood transfixed, utterly dazed, at a loss. It must have been as if he had been watching his beloved Tristan for the twelfth, thirteenth time and Tristan stirred, then leapt from his bier in the last act, announce in a januty aria interposed from Verdi that bygones were bygones, crying over spilt milk did nobody any good and, as for himself, he proposed to live happily ever after. The puppet master, open mouthed, wide eyed, impotent at the last, saw his dolls break free of their

SpoilersI had high expectations for this, Carter's fairy tale retellings are meant to be well known for being feminist, gothic, and original. For the most part, I didn't feel that was true. Having a few heroines with sexual agency didn't magically make them feminist or ground breaking, it takes a lot more than that to modernise a fairy tale. There were only a couple of them that I actually found somewhat enjoyable, the rest were rubbish.Hated the writing, it was convoluted, complicated, and

This book first came out in 1979, the year I graduated from high school. Not as controversial now as it was then, its relevancy is still in evidence. I enjoy retellings of traditional tales and am usually disappointed by them, so most of the stories were exciting to me.The title story is a Bluebeard tale, but its also a re-working of Beauty and the Beast. Immediately following it are two obvious re-workings of the latter: the first, straightforward and rather faithful to the original; the

I would never encourage anyone else to write like Angela Carter, because in almost any other hands it would be disastrous. But she somehow creates this feast of linguistic decadence thats sensual, dark, dreamy, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. This short story collection was 160 pages of Carter seducing the English language, and the English language fell HARD. The 10 stories mostly feature fairytale retellings that are as haunting and atmospheric as they are analytical. Carter asks questions

Carnivalesque, lush, vivid, riveting, enchanting, deeply sensual, fascinating, mesmerizing, filled with thought-provoking, ominous, luscious prose, grotesque dark gothic and fantasy imagery, glorious descriptions, complete with a feminist spin on old tales and subtle horror undertones... Seriously, how can one not love Carter's stories?

After the rigorous pounding that I got while reading The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman, I certainly wasn't expecting this almost diffident collection of short stories.Reading the whole collection the sense of Carter's craft is very strong - emphasised by having stories like The Courtship of Mr Lyon and The Tiger's Bride which are variants of the same folktale, or the repetition of the same elements - such as the magical power of virginity in The Lady of the House of Love and The Company