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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
Tag Archives: Bluebeard
New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing
Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl
(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch.)
‘Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for
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Tagged angela carter, angela slatter, baba yaga, Black-Winged Angels, Bluebeard, Emma Donoghue, hans christian andersen, Kissing the Witch, light as might heavy as hope, male and female agency in fairy tales, margaret atwood, marina warner, melusine, negotiating with the dead, new wine in old bottles, pressina, the absent mother, the bloody chamber, the bone mother, the juniper tree, the little match girl, the snow queen, vasilissa the Fair
A wowie-kazowie review over at Crikey (no less)
A truly fabulous review of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales* by guest reviewer Lyndon Riggall on Angela Meyer’s LiteraryMinded blog (she who is Queen of the Bloggeist). Thus, I do snoopy dance.
Snippet:
For those of you who will read The Girl With No Hands I will
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Review at Dirty Sexy Books
Lovely review over at Dirty Sexy Books of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales. Ms Rebecca gave it a 5 star rating, which equals “It kept me up all night”. Huzzah! 
After I had my first dark, delicious taste of Angela Slatter’s idea of a fairy tale in her first story, “Bluebeard,” I
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The Chosen Girl – Happily Never After
This is a little something extracted from my Masters thesis, Black-Winged Angels: Theoretical Underpinnings (which is a collection of nine reloaded fairytales and an accompanying exegesis). It’s just lying around, so why not post it here? Complete with dodgy bibliography and endnotes. Some of it appeared Read more…
Tagged Black-Winged Angels: Theoretical Underpinnings, Blackwell, Bluebeard, brothers grimm, Charles Perrault, cinderella, cordelia, dina goldstein, Donekyskin, Don’t Bet on the Prince, Dummling, fairy tales, fallen princesses series, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Gilbert and Gubar, Green Serpent, Hans My Hedgehog, Highlander, jack zipes, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, karen rowe, king lear, King Thrushbeard, Lieberman, little red riding hood, Marie-Catherine d’Aulonoy, Marie-Jeanne L’Heritier, marina warner, Mendelson, ruth bottigheimer, Shaggy Top, snow white, Tatterhood, terry windling, The Yellow Dwarf
