![]() ![]() Carter's women are more likely to outwit their attackers than fall prey to them as the heroine of 'The Company of Wolves' puts it, 'she knew she was nobody's meat'. Subversive twists abound: in 'The Werewolf', a retelling of 'Little Red Riding Hood', a girl hacks off a wolf's paw, only to find it turning into a warty, withered old hand that she recognises as her grandmother's. In the title story, Bluebeard is a sado-masochist who lures his inexperienced bride to his castle on the coast of Brittany but is defeated by a most unexpected adversary. In this astonishing collection, first published in 1979, familiar stories become seductive, enchanting and terrifying. Angela Carter had recently finished translating Charles Perrault's works when she began her own virtuoso retellings of classic fairy tales. Igor Karash won the second House of Illustration/Folio Society Illustration Award for his work on Angela Carter's seminal retellings of fairy tales. Blocked and printed with a design by Igor Karash. ![]()
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