Angela Carter
Angela Carter (1940-1992) was the author of Shadow Dance, The Magic Toyshop, The Bloody Chamber and The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman, among numerous other works. Her poetry collections include Five Quiet Shouters and Unicorn. Her novel Nights at the Circus won the 1984 James Tate Black Memorial Prize.
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Granta Reads: Angela Carter’s ‘Cousins’
Angela Carter
In this Halloween edition of the Granta podcast, Josie Mitchell reads Angela Carter’s 1980 short story, ‘Cousins’. The first in our Halloween series.
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Poetry
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The Lady and the Skull
Angela Carter
‘In just such an emblematic a fashion / The world takes on / Human form.’
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Fiction
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’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Angela Carter
‘Silence and space and an unimaginable freedom which they dare not imagine.’
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Essays & Memoir
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Sugar Daddy
Angela Carter
‘He recently prepared an electric bed for my boyfriend, which is the sort of thing a doting father in a Scots ballad might have done had the technology been available at the time.’
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Cousins
Angela Carter
‘The people who live in its shadow have no relation to the mountain itself’.