Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.<\/b><\/p>\n
From familiar fairy tales and legends – Red Riding Hood<\/i>, Bluebeard<\/i>, Puss in Boots<\/i>, Beauty and the Beast<\/i>, vampires and werewolves – Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.<\/p>\n
‘Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality’ Ian McEwan<\/b><\/p>\n
‘A quirky, original, and baroque stylist’ Margaret Atwood<\/b><\/p>\n
Featuring an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Angela Carter has taken old fairy stories, subtly altering and changing them to create strange glittering tales that will haunt the reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[26949,28103,26871,1512,599],"class_list":{"0":"post-105511","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-general-fiction","6":"product_tag-classic-fiction","7":"product_tag-early-20th-century-c-1900-to-c-1950","8":"product_tag-historical-fantasy","9":"product_tag-monsters-legendary-beings","10":"product_tag-short-stories","11":"pa_book_author-carter-angela","12":"pa_cover-paperback","13":"pa_dewey-823-914-edition22","14":"pa_imprint-vintage-classics","15":"pa_language-english","16":"pa_pages-11977","17":"pa_publisher-vintage-classics","18":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","20":"first","21":"onbackorder","22":"taxable","23":"shipping-taxable","24":"purchasable","25":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n