Angela Carter (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
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Angela Carter is nearly as well-known for her short fiction as she is for her novels. Her short-story collections include Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), Black Venus (1985; published in U.S. as Saints and Strangers, 1986), the highly praised The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), which contains her transformations of well-known fairy tales into adult tales with erotic overtones, and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993). She also wrote a number of fantastic stories for children, including Miss Z, the...
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