Angela Carter — ”The Bloody Chamber”
He senses she is curious and there is only certain path she could take, the path where he leads her to. The other half is an anticipation of the murder. This is what he longs for. Read on …
Tag: gothic
”There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales” by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Selected and Translated by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers “My stories are a mirror. People see themselves in them. If they see evil, it means they’re evil. If they see good, it means they’re good.” (Petrushevskaya qtd. in Guzeva 2018) Mysterious, unpredictable, hallucinating, brutal, yet honest, empathic and preserving a pure and direct style – Read on …