The Bloody Chamber

About The Bloody Chamber

Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) is a collection of ten stories — feminist retellings of fairy tales including Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, and Beauty and the Beast — that transform the sexual politics of their source material from within, exposing and reimagining what female desire and power might look like outside the constraints those politics impose. The founding text of feminist fairy tale fiction and one of the most influential British story collections of the twentieth century.