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"Black Venus", "The Kiss", "Our Lady of the Massacre", "The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe", "Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Peter and the Wolf", "The Kitchen Child" and "The Fall River Axe Murders". Black Venus (aka "Saints and Strangers") (1985)."The Bloody Chamber", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon", "The Tiger's Bride", "Puss-in-Boots", "The Erl-King", "The Snow Child", "The Lady of the House of Love", "The Werewolf, "The Company of Wolves" and "Wolf-Alice". "A Souvenir of Japan", "The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter", "The Loves of Lady Purple", "The Smile of Winter", "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest", "Flesh and the Mirror", "Master", "Reflections" and "Elegy for a Freelance". "The Man Who Loved a Double Bass", "A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home" and "A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)". Cover of the first edition, published by Chatto & Windus.

The book also includes an introduction by author Salman Rushdie. It includes stories previously collected in her other short story collections: Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces ( 1974), The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories ( 1979), Black Venus (aka Saints and Strangers) ( 1985) and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders ( 1993) as well as six previously un-collected stories. Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories ( 1995) is a posthumously-published collection of short stories by English writer Angela Carter.
