Black Venus
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe and raucous collection of stories.
Some are based on real people, like Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's sexy, reluctant muse, and Edgar Allan Poe, demonstrating in thought and deed how 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast'. Some are imaginary: the girl suckled by wolves who will not tolerate returning to humanity. Mingling history, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy, Carter's stories are as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.
 
Love 
Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and broken connections. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter's haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.