revered by fans of speculative fiction stateside and have influenced writers as diverse as Rick Moody, Sarah Waters, Neil Gaiman, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette Winterson and Kelly Link. fiction that was lavishly fabulist and infinitely playful, with a crown jeweler’s style, precise but fully colored. Sex isn’t a subtext in The Bloody Chamber, but the text itself. And how I yearn for exactly this.” - Kelly Link, from the Introduction What we don’t have, of course, is any more Angela Carter stories. It up the readerly brain and all the writerly nerves. The things that I needed, when I was beginning to think about writing short stories, were the things that I found in The Bloody Chamber.
“Since I first came across The Bloody Chamber, I have kept a copy with me wherever I have been living. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. 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 LinkĪngela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J.
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