New Releases by Angela Carter

A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire''s black mistress; Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from a fantastic imagination.

People and animals are never what they seem. Men turn into werewolves in Angela Carter''s classic play The Company of Wolves (now turned into a film). A beautiful girl turns out to be a vampire in Vampirella, a Transylvanian fable shadowed by the Great War. Meanwhile, Puss in Boots is out on the tiles, in a breathless entertainment. In Come Unto These Yellow Sand Carter takes you inside the eerie paintings of Richard Dadd '' to hear the beings within - the monsters produced by represssion - squeak and gibber and tell the truth''. In her introduction Angela Carter discusses the problems and delights of writing for radio: ''Radio retains the atavistic lure, the atavistic power, of voices in the dark, and the writers who gives he words to those voices retains some of the authority of the most antique tellers of tales''. The book includes nine reproductions of pictures by or of Richard Dadd.

Set in 1899. Through the circus flier F̀evvers'', the author mocks cliches of Gothic romance, melodrama, farce, fairytale, and utopian vision.

In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,'' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual inspections of ''abroad''. Some of her most brilliant writing is devoted to Japan - exotically and erotically described here - so perfectly suited to the Carter pen. Domestically, Angela Carter used her mordant wit and accurate eye to inspect England and Englishness as it manifested itself throughout the land. Then she turns to her own craft, and her extraordinarily wide-ranging book reviews are masterpieces.

6In this collection of nine short stories, Carter pinpoints the symbolism of city streets and weaves allegories around forests and jungles of strange and erotic landscapes of the imagination.

Collection of grisly adult stories drawn from fairy and folk tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, etc.

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"This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ghost of Hollywood past."--

Desiderio is a government minister in a otherwise prosperous city. Unfortunately, it is currently under attack by Doctor Hoffman''s reality distorting machines. Desiderio has been tasked with assassinating Dr. Hoffman so as to stop the attack.

The donkey prince must overcome many obstacles to retrieve the magic apple that will restore him to human form.

When the departure of the parrots from the jungle causes misfortune to fall on her home, Miss Z sets out to find the birds and persuade them to return.