by Angela Carter · Editorial Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722105774
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«O Quarto dos Horrores» is Angela Carter's collection of short stories, published by Editorial Caminho in paperback (192 pages, in Portuguese).
Angela Carter reinterprets classic fairy tales in a gothic, feminist and sensual key: Bluebeard, Puss in Boots and Little Red Riding Hood appear transformed into stories of desire, power and metamorphosis, with vampires and werewolves. It includes the famous story «The Company of Wolves», where the marvellous and the terrifying intertwine.
Original work: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), translated into Portuguese by Maria Adélia Silva Melo. Paperback edition from the Caminho de Bolso collection, complete text.
For readers interested in reinterpretations of fairy tales with a gothic atmosphere and feminist approach.
Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
