Collider recently ranked the “10 Best Horror Books of All Time.” Well-known novels topped the list, like The Haunting of Hill House, Dracula, Pet Sematary, and Frankenstein. A lesser-known work that also made the cut was The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter.
This book, released in 1979, contains a series of short stories, which are all based around popular fairy tales, from Beauty and the Beast to Little Red Riding Hood to Alice in Wonderland.
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Although many readers find her writing dark, when speaking about her stories in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, she said, “I’ve always thought that my stories were quite loaded with jokes, but the first story that I wrote that was supposed to be really funny, out and out funny, was a ‘Puss-in-Boots’ story in The Bloody Chamber. I mailed that to a radio place, and they censored it. (It was done on what we call Radio Three, an art channel, which uses a lot of material from BBC Radio and World Service that you don’t get here.) They cut it! They removed, according to the producer, about half a spool of bed springs!”
She also spoke about the scenery in the book. “Some of the landscapes are reinvented ones,” she explained. “‘The Bloody Chamber’ story itself is set quite firmly in the Mont Saint Michel, which is this castle on an island off the coast of Brittany; and a lot of the most exotic landscapes in it, the Italian landscapes, were quite legit. ‘The Tiger’s Bride’ landscape, admittedly, is touristic, but it’s one of the palaces in Mantua that has the most wonderful jewels, and that city is set in the Po Valley, which is very flat and very far out, so in the summer, you can imagine the mist rolling over. The landscapes there [in The Bloody Chamber] are quite real. Even the werewolf stories are set in some horror-filled invented landscapes, but there’s more a kind of down-to-earthness in those stories.”
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In addition to The Bloody Chamber, Carter wrote Nights at the Circus, The Magic Toyshop, and Wise Children. She was the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and named No. 10 on The Times list of “The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.”
Carter died from lung cancer in 1992 at the age of 51.
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