About Angela Carter
Angela Carter was best known for her subversive short stories, including her most famous collection, The Bloody Chamber. Carter translated the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, and wrote the screenplay for Neil Jordan's 1984 film, The Company of Wolves, based on her short story.
Novels
Shadow Dance (1966)
aka Honeybuzzard
The Magic Toyshop (1967)
Several Perceptions (1968)
Heroes and Villains (1969)
The Donkey Prince (1970)
Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)
Love (1971)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
aka The War of Dreams
The Passion of New Eve (1977)
The Music People (1980) (with Leslie Carter)
Moonshadow (1982) (with Justin Todd)
Nights at the Circus (1984)
Wise Children (1991)
Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)
aka Honeybuzzard
The Magic Toyshop (1967)
Several Perceptions (1968)
Heroes and Villains (1969)
The Donkey Prince (1970)
Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)
Love (1971)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
aka The War of Dreams
The Passion of New Eve (1977)
The Music People (1980) (with Leslie Carter)
Moonshadow (1982) (with Justin Todd)
Nights at the Circus (1984)
Wise Children (1991)
Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)
Collections
Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1970)
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1974)
Comic and Curious Cats (1979)
The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories (1979)
Black Venus's Tale (1980)
Black Venus (1985)
aka Saints and Strangers
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1985)
Artificial Fire (1988)
Don't Bet on the Prince (1989) (with Tanith Lee and Jack Zipes)
Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1990)
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories (1995)
The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts, And an Opera (1996)
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1974)
Comic and Curious Cats (1979)
The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories (1979)
Black Venus's Tale (1980)
Black Venus (1985)
aka Saints and Strangers
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1985)
Artificial Fire (1988)
Don't Bet on the Prince (1989) (with Tanith Lee and Jack Zipes)
Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1990)
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories (1995)
The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts, And an Opera (1996)
Chapbooks
Anthologies edited
The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1976)
Sleeping Beauty: And Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982)
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women (1986)
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990)
aka The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World (1993)
Virago Modern Classics Box Set (2004) (with Pat Barker)
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (2005)
Sleeping Beauty: And Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982)
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women (1986)
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990)
aka The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World (1993)
Virago Modern Classics Box Set (2004) (with Pat Barker)
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (2005)
Non fiction
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1978)
Nothing Sacred (1982)
Images of Frida Kahlo (1989) (with Frida Kahlo)
Nothing Sacred (1982)
Images of Frida Kahlo (1989) (with Frida Kahlo)
Anthologies containing stories by Angela Carter
A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977)
Elsewhere Two (1982)
The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
Women of Wonder (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Rivals of Dracula (1996)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998)
Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers (1998)
Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998)
Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women (1999)
Elsewhere Two (1982)
The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
Women of Wonder (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Rivals of Dracula (1996)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998)
Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers (1998)
Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998)
Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women (1999)
Short stories
| The Man Who Loved a Double Bass (1962) | |||
| A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home (1965) | |||
| A Victorian Fable (with Glossary) (1966) | |||
| Elegy for a Free-Lance (1974) | |||
| The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter (1974) | |||
| Flesh and the Mirror (1974) | |||
| The Loves of Lady Purple (1974) | |||
| Master (1974) | |||
| Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest (1974) | |||
| Reflections (1974) | |||
| The Smile of Winter (1974) | |||
| A Souvenir of Japan (1974) | |||
| The Lady of the House of Love (1975) | |||
| The Scarlet House (1976) | |||
| The Company of Wolves (1977) | |||
| The Erl-King (1977) | |||
| The Kiss (1977) | |||
| The Werewolf (1977) | |||
| Wolf-Alice (1978) | |||
| The Bloody Chamber (1979) | |||
| The Courtship of Mr Lyon (1979) | |||
| The Kitchen Child (1979) | |||
| Our Lady of the Massacre (1979) | |||
| Puss-in-Boots (1979) | |||
| The Snow Child (1979) | |||
| The Tiger's Bride (1979) | |||
| Black Venus (1980) | |||
| The Fall River Axe Murders (1981) | |||
| The Quilt Maker (1981) | |||
| The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe (1982) | |||
| Overture and Incidental Music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1982) | |||
| Peter and the Wolf (1982) | |||
| Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost (1987) | |||
| John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1988) | |||
| The Merchant of Shadows (1989) | |||
| Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room (1990) | |||
| In Pantoland (1991) | |||
| Lizzie's Tiger (1991) | |||
| Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene (1992) | |||
| The Ghost Ships (1993) | |||
| Gun for the Devil (1993) | |||
| The Snow Pavilion (1995) |
Awards
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Books about Angela Carter
Flesh and The Mirror: Essays on Angela Carter (1964) by Lorna Sage
Angela Carter's Monstrous Women (1992) by J Sears
Angela Carter (1997) by Linden Peach
Angela Carter (2000) by Alison Easton
The Fiction of Angela Carter (2001) by Sarah Gamble
Angela Carter's Monstrous Women (1992) by J Sears
Angela Carter (1997) by Linden Peach
Angela Carter (2000) by Alison Easton
The Fiction of Angela Carter (2001) by Sarah Gamble
Angela Carter recommends
 Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) Gabriel García Márquez "A tour de force of moral and emotional complexity." |  The Ice Monkey: And Other Stories (1983) M John Harrison "Stylish, accomplished, evocative short stories, exemplary fictions of unease shot through with poetic insights and most beautifully written." |  Empire of the Sun (1984) (Empire of the Sun, book 1) J G Ballard "An extraordinary achievement." | |
 The Portable Virgin (1991) Anne Enright "Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original." |
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