Angela Carter

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1970
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories (Dec-1987)

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales (Nov-2005)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories (Dec-1987)

Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories (Dec-1987)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Heros Villains

  • Heroes & Villains

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    After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the de...

  • The War of Dreams

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  • Passion of New Eve

    This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ...

  • The Company of Wolves

    REELING FROM THE REELS What was the original inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO? Where did David Cronenberg get the idea for THE FLY? Who dreamed up the character that Arnold Schwarzeneggar played in TOTAL RECALL? If you have ever wondered...

  • Fireworks

    ''I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.'' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter''s first major achiev...

  • Moonshadow

  • Nights at the Circus

    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction

    From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan

    Sophi F...

  • Come unto These Yellow Sands

    Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchoir Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ...



  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

    Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his ...

  • Saints and Strangers

    An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories…A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction. — The New York Times Book Review   Drawing on American history, literary legend, and folk ...

  • The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast
    Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

  • The Magic Toyshop

    From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love
     
    One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morni...

  • The Bloody Chamber

    From familiar fairy tales and legends â€" Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves â€" Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories....

  • The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book

  • The Virago Book of Fairy Tales

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    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, cov...

  • Nothing Sacred

  • Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales



  • Wise Children

    Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchoir Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ...

  • The Second Virago Book Of Fairy Tales

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  • Burning Your Boats

    This title comes with an introduction by Salman Rushdie. As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered ...

  • Black Venus

    Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire''s handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapp...

  • Several Perceptions

    Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel....

  • Shadow Dance

    Carter's heady first novel introduces one of her most enigmatic characters. Honeybuzzard spends his nights scavenging the contents of abandoned buildings and his days seducing and tormenting lovers, enemies, and friends. He and his best friend Morris...

  • Shaking a Leg

    "An electrifying intellectual autobiography, with all the narrative expanse, drama, outrage, and high comedy of the author’s fiction. Angela Carter is revealed here, anew, as one of the most important thinkers of twentieth-century world literature ...

  • Sea-Cat and Dragon King

  • The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

  • American Ghosts and Old World Wonders

    A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps...



  • Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around ...

  • Love

    First published in 1971, Love is Angela Carter’s fifth novel. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and...

  • The Sadeian Woman

    'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN 'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN 'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT...

  • Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

    Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter

    Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies. Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not fo...

  • The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

    In eighteenth century france, charles perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the west angela carter came across perraults work and set out to adapt the stories for modern ...

  • Bluebeard

    'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.'

    Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure ...

  • Modern Classics Heroes And Villains

    A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics. Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of ste...

  • Modern Classics The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman

    Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his ...

  • Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women

    This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfi...

  • The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks

    An omnibus of works by the great British writer that showcases her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination. In THE BLOODY CHAMBER, Angela Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy ...



  • American Ghosts & Old World Wonders

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Angela Carter has published 40 books.

Angela Carter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, American Ghosts & Old World Wonders, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Angela Carter, Heros Villains, was published in August 1970.

No. Angela Carter does not write books in series.
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