Black Venus (short Story Collection)

Black Venus (aka "Saints and Strangers") is an anthology of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1985 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. and contains a collection of eight stories, the majority of which are concerned with re-imagining the lives of certain figures in history, with a particular emphasis on those who well known through literature, for example Baudelaire.

Stories included are "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".

The anthology's contents are also reprinted in the volume Burning Your Boats, which features all of Carter's short fiction.

Works by Angela Carter
Novels
  • Shadow Dance
  • The Magic Toyshop
  • Several Perceptions
  • Heroes and Villains
  • Love
  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
  • The Passion of New Eve
  • Nights at the Circus
  • Wise Children
Short Fiction
  • Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
  • The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
  • The Bridegroom
  • Black Venus
  • American Ghosts and Old World Wonders
  • Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Poetry
  • Five Quiet Shouters
  • Unicorn
Dramatic Works
  • Come Unto These Golden Sands: Four Radio Plays
  • The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera
  • The Holy Family Album
Children's Books
  • The Donkey Prince
  • Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady
  • Comic and Curious Cats
  • The Music People
  • Moonshadow
  • Sea-Cat and Dragon King
Non-Fiction
  • The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography
  • Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings
  • Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
  • Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writing
Works as Editor
  • Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories
  • The Virago Book of Fairy Tales
  • The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales
  • Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Works as Translator
  • The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
  • Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Film Adaptations
  • The Company of Wolves
  • The Magic Toyshop

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