8 must-read fantasy books like The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B…

"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

1. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

2. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

Cover of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine R. Hedges, Elaine Hedges

3. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

Cover of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

4. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

Similar categories in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • feminism
  • classics
  • fiction
"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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5. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Merchant's Prologue and Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Maurice Hussey

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an … read more

Similar categories in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Merchant's Prologue and Tale book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture by None, Ovid, Sabine Baring-Gould, Petronius, Eugene Field, Charlotte F. Otten, Marie de France, Stuart Clark, Clemence Houseman, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, Reginald Scot, None, None

7. A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture

By: None , Ovid , Sabine Baring-Gould , Petronius , Eugene Field , Charlotte F. Otten , Marie de France , Stuart Clark , Clemence Houseman , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , Reginald Scot , None , None

4.16

Format: 144 pages,

This book collects works from contemporary medical journals, historical werewolf trials, medival te… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Woman in Black by Susan         Hill, John Lawrence

8. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • feminism
  • retellings
  • fiction
Cover of Dracula by Bram Stoker, David J. Skal, Nina Auerbach

10. Dracula

By: Bram Stoker , David J. Skal , Nina Auerbach

4.02

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here. When Jonathan Harker visi… read more

Similar categories in Bram Stoker's Dracula book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Despair has its own calms."

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"Enter freely and of your own free will!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Cover of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

11. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
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12. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

Similar categories in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

13. Thirteen Cents

By: K. Sello Duiker

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the postcard mountain and sea, has its own shad… read more

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Cover of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

14. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

Similar categories in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • fairy tales
  • gothic
  • retellings
  • classics
  • magical realism
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Cover of Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

15. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

16. Selected Tales

By: Jacob Grimm , None , None

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Selected Talescontains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by t… read more

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17. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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18. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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19. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Cover of The Three Witches and The Master by Max Nowaz

20. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's The Three Witches and The Master book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

Cover of Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection by Hans Christian Andersen

21. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection

By: Hans Christian Andersen

3.93

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

'My fairy tales were as much for older people as for children...humour was the real salt in them.' … read more

Similar categories in Hans Christian Andersen's Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection book and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • fairy tales
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy

16 must-read fiction books like The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

3.59

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17 Best fiction books like Dracula by Bram Stoker, David J. Skal, Nina Auerbach

Transform Your Habits

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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