Angela Carter

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends âe" Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves âe" Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Hanniyah Cross

Elena Menendez

Draculelle

Nezumi

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Nica

‘There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer’

Take off my clothes for you, like a ballet girl? Is that all you want of me?

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories quotes

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