Angela Carter (May 7, 1940-February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist works.

Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, she at first worked as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser. She married twice, leaving her first husband using the proceeds of the Somerset Maugham Award for literature and spending two years living in Tokyo. She then explored the United States, Asia and Europe. These experiences had a positive influence on her later writing. She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide and the University of East Anglia.

Carter also contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman.

Two of her works have been adapted into films, The Magic Toyshop in 1987, and The Company of Wolves in 1984.

Angela Carter died in 1992 after developing cancer.

Novels

Shadow Dance (1966) aka Honeybuzzard

The Magic Toyshop (1967)

Several Perceptions (1968)

Heroes and Villains (1969)

The Donkey Prince (1970)

Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)

Love (1971)

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) aka The War of Dreams

The Passion of New Eve (1977)

The Music People (1980)

Moonshadow (1982)

Nights at the Circus (1984)

Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1985)

Artificial Fire (1988)

Wise Children (1991)

Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)

Short Stories

The Man Who Loved a Double Bass (1962)

A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home (1965)

A Victorian Fable (with Glossary) (1966)

Elegy for a Free-Lance (1974)

The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter (1974)

Flesh and the Mirror (1974)

The Loves of Lady Purple (1974)

Master (1974)

Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest (1974)

Reflections (1974)

The Smile of Winter (1974)

A Souvenir of Japan (1974)

The Lady of the House of Love (1975)

The Scarlet House (1976)

The Company of Wolves (1977)

The Erl-King (1977)

The Kiss (1977)

The Werewolf (1977)

Wolf-Alice (1978)

The Bloody Chamber (1979)

The Courtship of Mr Lyon (1979)

The Kitchen Child (1979)

Our Lady of the Massacre (1979)

Puss-in-Boots (1979)

The Snow Child (1979)

The Tiger's Bride (1979)

Black Venus (1980)

The Fall River Axe Murders (1981)

The Quilt Maker (1981)

The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe (1982)

Overture and Incidental Music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1982)

Peter and the Wolf (1982)

Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost (1987)

John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1988)

The Merchant of Shadows (1989)

Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room (1990)

In Pantoland (1991)

Lizzie's Tiger (1991)

Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene (1992)

The Ghost Ships (1993)

Gun for the Devil (1993)

The Snow Pavilion (1995)

Anthologies

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1970)

Expletives Deleted (1974)

The Bloody Chamber (1979)

Comic and Curious Cats (1979)

Black Venus (1985) aka Saints and Strangers

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)

Burning Your Boats (1995)

Non-fiction

The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1978)

Nothing Sacred (1982)

Images of Frida Kahlo (1989) with Frida Kahlo

External links

• Angela Carter Unofficial Web Site
• The Scriptorium: Angela Carter, by Jeff VanderMeer
• A Very Good Wizard, a Very Dear Friend, a remembrance by Salman Rushdie