For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master
of the literary supernatural's most celebrated book--featuring a new
introduction by Kelly Link
Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of
Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly
Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her
masterpiece, 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.
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