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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] strange_complex 2020-03-22 11:06 pm (UTC)

Angela Carter (1979), The Bloody Chamber

This collection is important to me; Angela Carter was one of the first authors I discovered in college (not as coursework, just in that period of my life) and "The Lady of the House of Love" was the first story of hers I ever read. Daisy Chainsaw made a short film of it in the form of their music video for "Hope Your Dreams Come True" (1992).

a vampiric Duke with another bloody chamber

I believe the Duke to be intertextual, like a lot of Carter's werewolves, with Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Said he was a wolf, only the difference / Was, a wolf's skin was hairy on the outside, / His on the inside."

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