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Angela Carter
(Angela Olive Stalker Carter)
(1940 - 1992)Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.
Awards: James Tait Black (1984), SoA (1969) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Series
Bristol Trilogy
1. Shadow Dance (1966)
aka Honeybuzzard
2. Several Perceptions (1968)
3. Love (1971)
1. Shadow Dance (1966)
aka Honeybuzzard
2. Several Perceptions (1968)
3. Love (1971)
Novels
The Magic Toyshop (1967)
Heroes and Villains (1969)
The Donkey Prince (1970)
Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
aka The War of Dreams
The Passion of New Eve (1977)
The Music People (1980) (with Leslie Carter)
Moonshadow (1982) (with Justin Todd)
Nights at the Circus (1984)
Wise Children (1991)
Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)
Heroes and Villains (1969)
The Donkey Prince (1970)
Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
aka The War of Dreams
The Passion of New Eve (1977)
The Music People (1980) (with Leslie Carter)
Moonshadow (1982) (with Justin Todd)
Nights at the Circus (1984)
Wise Children (1991)
Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)
Collections
Fireworks (1970)
Expletives Deleted (1974)
Comic and Curious Cats (1979)
The Bloody Chamber (1979)
Black Venus's Tale (1981)
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1985)
Black Venus (1985)
aka Saints and Strangers
Artificial Fire (1988)
Shaking a Leg (1990)
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)
Burning Your Boats (1995)
The Curious Room (1996)
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (2008) (with Charles Perrault)
Bluebeard (2011)
Stories for Winter (2023) (with others)
Expletives Deleted (1974)
Comic and Curious Cats (1979)
The Bloody Chamber (1979)
Black Venus's Tale (1981)
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1985)
Black Venus (1985)
aka Saints and Strangers
Artificial Fire (1988)
Shaking a Leg (1990)
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)
Burning Your Boats (1995)
The Curious Room (1996)
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (2008) (with Charles Perrault)
Bluebeard (2011)
Stories for Winter (2023) (with others)
Novellas and Short Stories
Anthologies edited
The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1976)
Sleeping Beauty (1982)
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women (1986)
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990)
aka The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen (1993)
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (2005)
Sleeping Beauty (1982)
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women (1986)
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990)
aka The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen (1993)
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (2005)
Non fiction show
Omnibus editions show
Books containing stories by Angela Carter
Sisters of The Revolution (2015)
A Femimist Speculative Fiction Anthology
edited by
Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanderMeer
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Angela Carter recommends
The Portable Virgin (1991)
Anne Enright
"Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original."
The Ice Monkey (1983)
M John Harrison
"Stylish, accomplished, evocative short stories, exemplary fictions of unease shot through with poetic insights and most beautifully written."
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