The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Here are a series of linocut illustrations I made for Angela Carter's dark fairy tale collection, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Eight out of the ten tales feature young women in peril. 

Cover design: The Lady of the House of Love

Media used: Lino, paper and ink

“The metal shell of the Iron Maiden emitted a ghostly twang;

 my feverish imagination

might have guessed its occupant was trying to clamber out,

 though even in the midst of my hysteria, 

I knew she must be dead to find a home there.”

Entitled: The Bloody Chamber

Media used: Lino, paper and ink

(A wolf's mouth if viewed from side-on)

“A-hunting we shall go! Loyal to the last,
I play catch as catch can with Tab’s dead rats.”

Entitled: Puss-in-Boots

Media used: Linocut, ink on paper.

“Soon they were laughing and joking like old friends. 

When he offered to carry her basket, she gave it

to him although her knife was in it...”

Entitled: The Snow Child

Media used: Linocut, ink on paper