#angelacarter

[kaggsy59]

"...there is no reason for anything to be real." #angelacarter #blackvenus

I am nothing if not a very easily influenced reader; mention an interesting sounding book, and I’m off to see if I have it in the stacks or if I can pick up a reasonably priced copy somewhere. And recently, Chris over at Calmgrove Books happened to write about a couple of the stories in the “Black Venus” collection by Angela Carter – “Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream”…

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[kobiamu58]

Fairy Tales After Midnight

The wolves were never only wolves.

Angela Carter understood this.

In her stories, mirrors breathe, beauty becomes dangerous, and innocence quietly burns beneath velvet pages.

She rewrote old myths not to destroy them— but to reveal what they were hiding all along.

Some literature comforts us.

Some literature opens a forbidden door.

Read more: https://worldliterature24.blogspot.com/2026/05/angela-carter.html

[theartisanalwriter]

Fuse

Muti-genre, rural Ontario writer Hollay Ghadery talks to AW’s Lucy Black about her new recovery memoir LB: Congratulations on having written such a moving account of your experiences as a biracial, bicultural individual.  Your loving descriptions of family, both the one that nurtured you, and the one that you have constructed, are beautifully written with rich, evocative language.  How did you…

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[literaturewoman]

"I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away" #angelacarter #literature #literaturestudent #prose #authors #writers #poetscoffee #poets #poetry #englishliterature #americanliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZmo3DIIyR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bonthewitch]

Hellllo, fresh Angela Carter arrived. I had to hunt for a copy of this one! 👻 #toBeRead #Bookstagram #FeministLiterature #AngelaCarter #literature #readsWithBon https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6d7DkyMqk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[trixie-and-ames]

'Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and I you read it in your own terms.' - Angela Carter #angelacarter #readmorewomen https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjk0JKFOvDj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tima-teacher]

Angela Olive Pearce formerly Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. She is best known for her book The Bloody Chamber, which was published in 1979. 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. #angelacarter #angelacarterquotes #womenwriters (at Algiers, Algeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXRfTyZMhD6/?utm_medium=tumblr

[n-i-j-o-m-u]

20th Anniversary of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball

20th Anniversary of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball

I was looking through some old files and realized that the mini of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball came out in 2000, twenty years ago. So I thought I’d do a few things in honor of this anniversary.

a free pdf of the original mini is available on Gumroad

the version on this site has larger images

the story is now also on Tapas

Because I am a compulsive archivist of my own history, I also…

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