The Bloody Chamber
And Other Stories
by Angela Carter
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Recommended by 3 notable people, including Emma Watson and Patrick Rothfuss
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Werewolf, For Women, and Horror.
Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and Kelly Link, who introduces this edition of Carter's most celebrated book, published for the seventyfifth anniversary of her birth.In The Bloody Chamber whic...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Werewolf, For Women, and Horror.
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