#the bloody chamber & other stories

[flowerytale]

Angela Carter, from “The Lady of the House of Love”, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

[derangedrhythms]

Midwinter – invincible, immaculate. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Snow Child’

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; "Puss-In-Boots,"

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[words-and-coffee]

There are some eyes that can eat you.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Erl-King

[logandria]

“His wedding gift, clasped around my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.”

- The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

A recent personal project. Pearls, glass, and so many meters of fishing line…

[stheresya]

Forgive me, I'm not myself. You have no idea how I fight this thing. But it is... adamantine.

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) // The Lady of the House of Love - Angela Carter

[divineandmajesticinone]

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; ‘The Tiger's Bride’

[petaltexturedskies]

The soft wind of spring breathed in from the near-by park through the open windows; she did not know why it made her want to cry.

Angela Carter, from "The Courtship of Mr Lyon" in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

[anjoperario]

the bloody chamber and other stories, by angela carter // interview with the vampire

[invisible-woe]

— from The Werewolf by Angela Carter

[flowerytale]

Angela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love", The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

[derangedrhythms]

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Lady of the House of Love’

[idonotsow]

“A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.”

[words-and-coffee]

I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Bloody Chamber

[the-swift-tricker]

The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan

[id four screenshots from the company of wolves. the first shows the silhouette of a naked woman with long wild hair standing at the edge of a well in the dark. the second shows her hand gripping the well's rim as she descend into it. the third and fourth show a young girl half hidden in shadows next to a fireplace gently stroking a wolf sitting next to her. the subtitles read "she crept inside to the world below..and that's all i'll tell you, because that's all i know." end id]