“I was a young girl, a virgin,
and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who
were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.”
I will forever
be thankful to the person who post a line from this book on tumblr. That post
got me so curious and lead me to maybe one of the best fairy tale retellings
anthology I’ve ever read. Whoever you are, thank you so much! The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is an anthology of fairy
tale retelling short stories written by Angela Carter. Unlike most of fairy
tale retellings I’ve read, the stories in this books are dark, sensual, and
quite gruesome. The only fairy tale retelling that I feel to have a quite
similar dark feeling to this book is Carolyn Sturgeon’s The Fairest of Them All. But, while The Fairest of Them All lacks of subtlety and the quality of power
in its characters, The Bloody Chamber
managed to deliver it.
