Bluebeard's room

Bluebeard's Room (originally The Bloody Chamber and other stories ) is a collection of fairy tales for adults by the British writer Angela Carter (1940-1992), which she published in 1979. The book was published in German in a translation by Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt in 1982 by Rowohlt Verlag as Bluebeard's Room with the subtitle Märchen aus der Zwischenwelt ; the 1985 paperback edition was subtitled Fairy Tales for Adults .

Classic fairy tales served as models, which Carter alienated and to which she gave sexual accents. This work was preceded by the collection of essays The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1978).

The stories

• Bluebeard's Room (after Bluebeard )
• Mister Lyons Commercial (based on Beauty and the Beast )
• The Tiger's Bride (based on Beauty and the Beast)
• Puss in Boots (based on Puss in Boots )
• The Erlkönig (after Erlkönig )
• The Snow Child (after Snow White )
• The lady from the house of love (after Vampirella )
• The werewolf (after Little Red Riding Hood )
• The Society of Wolves (after Little Red Riding Hood)
• Wolfs-Alice (after Little Red Riding Hood and Alice in Wonderland )

filming

The stories Werewolf and The Company of Wolves were by Angela Carter screenplay written and British director Neil Jordan in 1984 as The Company of Wolves with Angela Lansbury , Sarah Patterson and David Warner filmed .