The Bloody Chamber - 9780143107613

For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, 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 movieThe Company of Wolves—she breathed new life into familiar fairy tales and legends in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. This edition features a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Nebula and World Fantasy Award–wining author, one of a new generation of writers who’ve been inspired by Carter’s brand of fantastical, subversive, boundlessly imaginative fiction.

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