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

Further reading

• Wikipedia