The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter

'Nursery fears made flesh and sinew; earliest and most archaic of fears, fear of devourment.'

We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories - stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern: the tales in this book pulse with a vivid, radical imagination.