The Bloody Chamber (collection)
The Bloody Chamber is a collection of short fiction by Angela Carter. It won the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize.
Contents
- "The Bloody Chamber" (first publication)
- "The Courtship of Mr Lyon" (previously published; revised for this collection)
- "The Tiger's Bride" (first publication)
- "Puss-in-Boots" (previously published in 1979 in The Straw and the Gold, edited by Emma Tennant)
- "The Erl-King" (originally appeared in Bananas; revised for this collection)
- "The Snow Child" (originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on "Not Now, I'm Listening"; revised for this collection)
- "The Lady of the House of Love" (originally broadcast as Vampirella on BBC Radio 3 (1976); published in The Iowa Review; revised from print version for this collection)
- "The Werewolf" (originally appeared in South-West Arts Review; revised for this collection)
- "The Company of Wolves" (originally appeared in Bananas; revised for this collection)
- "Wolf-Alice" (originally appeared in Stand; revised for this collection)
Editions
- 1979: Victor Gollancz, London
- 1980: Harper & Row, New York
- 1987: Penguin, New York