Angela Carter, from “The Lady of the House of Love”, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

Midwinter – invincible, immaculate. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Snow Child’

There are some eyes that can eat you.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Erl-King

The soft wind of spring breathed in from the near-by park through the open windows; she did not know why it made her want to cry.

Angela Carter, from "The Courtship of Mr Lyon" in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Company of Wolves’, Angela Carter

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

The Tiger's Bride, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Forgive me, I'm not myself. You have no idea how I fight this thing. But it is... adamantine.

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) // The Lady of the House of Love - Angela Carter

The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan

[id five screenshots from the company of wolves showing a rustic village square with a well in the center and a shadowy wolf emerging from it. the wolf looks around with yellow lights reflected in it's eyes and the subtitles read "once upon a time...when the village was asleep...a she-wolf came, from the world below to the world above." end id]

In English and we were doing Ao4 on 'Dracula' (connecting two stories together) and we were ment to connect it to 'The Bloody Chamber' by Angela Carter on women in death and how Stoker and Carter difference in this, but me being me went off track.

Before hand we were looking into why Jonathon Harker was insisting to marry Mina quickly after looking back through his diary, thinking he was going mad, so we had to look though that in detail to points of him trying to prove he isn't weak to marriage as a distraction. But we also settled on the idea that it is because it is normal, especially in a religious sense (also introducing more God into his life to further try and distance himself from Dracula) Harker wanted to be normal.

But i'm a Fannibal so I connected that point to Will Graham instead, because it is widely believed that he only married Molly to have a chance at a normal life, to prove that there is nothing wrong with him.

Obviously I didn't say it out loud, I was close to, but I did write it on a sticky note so I would remember to post it on here.

(For those of you who do not live in the UK, Ao4 is mainly an A-level English thing, we might of used it in GCSE for Poetry aswell to connect two poems of similar meaning and/or theme together.)

Angela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love", The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Lady of the House of Love’

He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water. And shakes over me dead leaves as if into the stream I have become. Sometimes the birds, at random, all singing, strike a chord. His skin covers me entirely; we are like two halves of a seed, enclosed in the same integument. I should like to grow enormously small, so that you could swallow me, like those queens in fairy tales who conceive when they swallow a grain of corn or a sesame seed. Then I could lodge inside your body and you would bear me.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Erl-King

Angela Carter, “Wolf-Alice” from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979)

The Company of Wolves (1984) is an amazing film, but the fact that only *one* story (+ some elements from Wolf-Alice and The Werewolf) from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories was adapted for the screen is ridiculous. Give me the rest of them. Where is the properly Gothic, suspenseful, and sensual adaptation of The Bloody Chamber itself? Where is The Erl-King folk horror-ish movie? Where’s The Tiger Bride with lush visuals and quiet despair, where is a raunchy Puss-in-Boots comedy, where’s The Lady of the House of Love with an aesthetic to make Crimson Peak and Bram Stoker’s Dracula jealous? I need them!