A review by hangsawoman
Black Venus by Angela Carter

5.0

All but two of these stories are stellar, my particular favourites being the sideways-prequel to Midsummer Night's Dream and the terrifying, Derridean take on Lizzie Borden, positing that the axe murders were inescapable for everyone involved, because they were iconic and historic even before they occurred. No writer stimulates my mind like Angela Carter does. She is endlessly fascinating, exciting, exhausting and entertaining.