• The Bloody Chamber (or The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) is a collection of short fiction by English writer Angela Carter. It was first published...
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    named after Angela Carter's book, The Bloody Chamber, that thrilled Wolf in his early years. Wolf originally started the label as somewhere to store his...
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  • Angela Carter (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2008, The Times ranked...
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    short story "The Bloody Chamber", which explicitly sets the tale in France). Henri Désiré Landru was a French serial killer during the First World War...
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  • served as the original version of her short story "The Lady of the House of Love" from The Bloody Chamber. The film received its world premiere at the Toronto...
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  • year, The Bloody Chamber, the opening story follows a young, unnamed French woman who is groomed into sex and, subsequently, marriage by the scopophiliac...
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    includes The Bloody Chamber and The Wicked Lady in England, and Be My Baby and Sleep Eat Party in Belfast. She starred as the titular character in The Haunting...
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    in The Bloody Chamber is an impoverished piano student married to a Marquis who was much older than herself to "banish the spectre of poverty". The story...
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    Riding Hood appears in Angela Carter's short story "The Company of Wolves", published in The Bloody Chamber (1979), her collection of "dark, feminist fables"...
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    the story a Polynesian flavor. Angela Carter offers an alternative, updated version of the tale in her collection of short stories The Bloody Chamber...
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    Richard Armitage (actor) (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    actor and author. He received recognition in the UK with his first leading role as John Thornton in the British television programme North & South (2004)...
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  • other short story collections: Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), Black Venus (aka Saints and Strangers) (1985)...
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    Female Actor in a Play in 2014 for The Bloody Chamber, and in 2017 for Faith Healer. In 2021, Whyte appeared in the final series of Jack Irish. In 2023...
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    became the origin of the name of a type of trouser called "pantaloons", which was later shortened to "pants". Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (in the short...
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  • "high art". The term "wise children" occurs in two other works by Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Nights at the Circus. Throughout the novel, there...
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    Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978), by Robin McKinley. "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" (1979), from Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, based...
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    The Company of Wolves and Wolf-Alice, in The Bloody Chamber from The Duchess of Malfi, most notably the line "hairy on the inside", but also "the howling...
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  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, published in the United States as The War of Dreams, is a 1972 novel by Angela Carter. This picaresque...
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  • The Magic Toyshop (1967) is a British novel by Angela Carter. It follows the development of the heroine, Melanie, as she becomes aware of herself, her...
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  • the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978) Angela Carter's "The Courtship of Mr Lyon" and "The Tiger's Bride" in The Bloody Chamber (1979) Robin McKinley's...
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  • Nights at the Circus is a novel by British writer Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and the winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for...
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    spirit. In Angela Carter's short story "The Erl-King", contained within the 1979 collection The Bloody Chamber, the female protagonist encounters a male...
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    portrays the consequences to women, men, families, communities, and societies as undesirable. In the 15th century, Christine de Pizan wrote The Book of the City...
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    collection, The Bloody Chamber, she examines the messages about adolescent sexuality in stories like 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Snow White' overturning the sexual...
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  • and the artist Paul Klee. Another is a parodic rewriting of the fairy-tale Bluebeard, perhaps inspired by Angela Carter's story "The Bloody Chamber." Yet...
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  • The Passion of New Eve is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1977. The book is set in a dystopian United States where civil war has broken out...
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  • published in England by Heinemann in 1966. It was published under the name Honeybuzzard in the United States. Upon publication it was acclaimed by Anthony Burgess...
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  • as the daughter of one of the "Professors", academic survivors of the unnamed global disaster, whose enclave is guarded by a soldier caste. At the beginning...
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  • from the castle walls. Soon after, Mr Filch's cat, Mrs Norris, is found petrified, along with a bloody warning scrawled on a wall: "The Chamber of Secrets...
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  • (1867-1904) Emilio Carrere, The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1920) Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (1974) Mrs Carver, The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey...
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