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The Bloody Chamber (Paperback, 1990, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey …

I'd already been planning on reading this book for a while (I love a fairytale retelling, if it's done right). Then I watched the movie The Company of Wolves and it was the exact story I needed at that moment. Without going into detail, it really helped go through and get over some stuff. So I wanted to read the book even more. I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm going through it in order, saving the wolf-stories that I adored so much in the film version for last.