Combining the erotic and the sinister, the lyrical and the grisly, and the comic and the demonic, these twelve stories are startling transformations of such classic children's tales as Bluebeard's Castle and Beauty and the Beast

The Bloody Chamber

Literature & Fiction

CARTER, ANGELA

History & Criticism

Harpercollins

A selection of contemporary Gothic stories in which erotic, exotic, and horrific themes are used to reveal the influence of the unconscious and illuminate our place in the world

Fireworks: Nine Stories in Various Disguises

British & Irish

"Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploited her sexuality. This is a world where all tenderness is false, and all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, celebrated novelist Angela Carter takes on these figments of his extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our timeâ€”the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a stunning vision of love that admits neither the conqueror nor the conquered. It is a dazzling meditation on women's sexual freedom.

The Sadeian Woman

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Here is the ritualism of Tokyo where lovers ponder the intangible reflections of themselves, 'reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming', and 'the velvet nights spaked with menace' of a wasted London, poised on the brink of destruction. In these extraordinary tales Angela Carter pinpoints the symbolism of the city streets and weaves allegories around forests and jungles of strange and erotic landscapes of the imagination.

Fireworks

Contemporary

Reissued as part of the VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS series, a novel in which a woman walks in a midnight garden wearing her mother's wedding dress, but then disaster strikes and she is transported from rural comfort to London, to the Magical Toyshop. From the author of SHADOW DANCE, SEVERAL PERCEPTIONS and THE BLOODY CHAMBER.

The Magic Toyshop (Student's Virago)

Nelson Thornes Ltd

A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour.

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders

Literary

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

1st Arrow 1978 edition paperback, vg+ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Passion of New Eve

Arrow Bks.

Opened at London's Lyric Hammersmith in 2006.

Nights at the Circus

Vintage

From the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious's mysteries...lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glitter and haunt - strange nuggets from a writer whose wayward pen spills forth stylish, erotic, nightmarish jewels of prose - the old fairy stories live and breathe again, subtly altered, subtly changed.

The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

Vintage Classics

Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings (Vintage Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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