English Bloody Chamber Amazonage
... Tales as rich as blood red roses, February 12, 2001 Reviewer: villette from Glasgow, Scotland "The Bloody Chamber" is a work of literature which transcends genre and unearths the thinly veiled erotic elements of the fairy tale form. ... Highlights include the eponymous novella "The Bloody Chamber" (Carters subversive re-telling of the "Bluebeard" story) and "The Lady of the House of Love", which illuminates the notion of a decaying European aristocracy behind the myth of the vampire. ... Who can forget the sad vampiress, in her chamber, who falls in love with the sun (the young and naive soldier)whos ancestors come "peeking" in and out her like their grim portraits on the wall? ... Tales as rich as blood red roses, February 12, 2001 Reviewer: villette from Glasgow, Scotland "The Bloody Chamber" is a work of literature which transcends genre and unearths the thinly veiled erotic elements of the fairy tale form. ... Highlights include the eponymous novella "The Bloody Chamber" (Carters subversive re-telling of the "Bluebeard" story) and "The Lady of the House of Love", which illuminates the notion of a decaying European aristocracy behind the myth of the vampire. ... Who can forget the sad vampiress, in her chamber, who falls in love with the sun (the young and naive soldier)whos ancestors come "peeking" in and out her like their grim portraits on the wall? ... Tales as rich as blood red roses, February 12, 2001 Reviewer: villette from Glasgow, Scotland "The Bloody Chamber" is a work of literature which transcends genre and unearths the thinly veiled erotic elements of the fairy tale form. ... Highlights include the eponymous novella "The Bloody Chamber" (Carters subversive re-telling of the "Bluebeard" story) and "The Lady of the House of Love", which illuminates the notion of a decaying European aristocracy behind the myth of the vampire. ... Who can forget the sad vampiress, in her chamber, who falls in love with the sun (the young and naive soldier)whos ancestors come "peeking" in and out her like their grim portraits on the wall? ... Tales as rich as blood red roses, February 12, 2001 Reviewer: villette from Glasgow, Scotland "The Bloody Chamber" is a work of literature which transcends genre and unearths the thinly veiled erotic elements of the fairy tale form. ... Highlights include the eponymous novella "The Bloody Chamber" (Carters subversive re-telling of the "Bluebeard" story) and "The Lady of the House of Love", which illuminates the notion of a decaying European aristocracy behind the myth of the vampire.