**Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales woven in seductive, luminous storytelling.** Beauty is turned into a Beast, Little Red Riding’s grandmother is stoned to death as a witch and, in the title story, a beautiful young pianist is swept into the world of a rich and sinister aristocrat, a man whose previous three wives have all died in mysterious circumstances. From familiar fairy tales and legends – Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves – Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. **'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan** **'A quirky, original, and baroque stylist' Margaret Atwood** **With an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson**

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