The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

　　Fairy tales retold and interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.

作者簡介

安潔拉．卡特（Angela Carter,1940-1992）

　　出生於英國伊斯特本（Eastbourne），是英國最具獨創性的作家之一，書寫風格混雜魔幻寫實、歌德式以及女性主 義。卡特著有八部小說：《魔幻玩具鋪》（獲約翰．勒維林．里斯獎）、《數種知覺》（獲桑姆塞．毛姆獎）、《英雄與惡徒》、《愛》、《霍夫曼博士的地獄欲望 機器》、《新夏娃的激情》、《馬戲團之夜》、以及《明智的孩子》。三本短篇小說集：《染血之室》、《煙火：九個世俗故事》，以及《聖人與陌生人》等等。卡 特的作品也深受媒體喜愛：短篇小說〈與狼為伴〉和《魔幻玩具鋪》曾拍成電影，《馬戲團之夜》和《明智的孩子》改編成舞台劇於倫敦上演，2006 年更被喻為 是安潔拉．卡特之年，在英倫掀起一陣卡特熱潮。

　　Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992