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Angela Carter

(Angela Olive Stalker Carter)

(1940 - 1992)

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.

Genres: Horror

Series

Bristol Trilogy
1. Shadow Dance (1966)
aka Honeybuzzard
2. Several Perceptions (1968)
3. Love (1971)

Novels

The Magic Toyshop (1967)
Heroes and Villains (1969)
The Donkey Prince (1970)
Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)
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)

Omnibus

The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks (2018)

Collections

Fireworks (1970)
Expletives Deleted (1974)
Comic and Curious Cats (1979)
The Bloody Chamber (1979)
Black Venus's Tale (1981)
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1985)
Black Venus (1985)
aka Saints and Strangers
Artificial Fire (1988)
Shaking a Leg (1990)
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)
Burning Your Boats (1995)
The Curious Room (1996)
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (2008) (with Charles Perrault)
Bluebeard (2011)

Chapbooks

Unicorn (1966)
Lizzie Borden (1996)

Novellas

The Lady of the House of Love (1975)

Anthologies edited

The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1976)
Sleeping Beauty (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 (1993)
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)

Anthologies containing stories by Angela Carter

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 Scarlet House (1976)
	The Company of Wolves (1977)
	The Erl-King (1977)
	The Kiss (1977)
	The Werewolf (1977)
	Wolf-Alice (1978)
	The Bloody Chamber [short story] (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 [short story] (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

	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1984) : Nights at the Circus
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1986) : Black Venus

Books about Angela Carter

Flesh and The Mirror (1964) by Lorna Sage
Angela Carter's Monstrous Women (1991) by J Sears
Angela Carter (1997) by Linden Peach
Angela Carter (2000) by Alison Easton
The Fiction of Angela Carter (2002) by Sarah Gamble

Angela Carter recommends

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1982)
Gabriel García Márquez
"A tour de force of moral and emotional complexity."

The Ice Monkey (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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