A young girl walks into the woods and is seduced by the Erl-King, a sinister personification of the forest itself. However, she realises that he plans on imprisoning her by turning her into a bird; as he's done many times before. On this realisation she murders the Erl-King keeping her freedom and freeing the 'birds'.
Bloody Chamber.
A young girl marries an older, wealthy French Marquis. When he takes her to his castle, she learns that he enjoys sadistic pornography and takes pleasure in others embarrassment. She is a talented pianist, and a blind piano tuner hears her play and falls in love with her. When her husband leaves on a business trip, and forbids her from entering a particular room, she does so and realises the full extend of his perverse and murderous tendencies upon finding the bodies of his previous wives. When he returns he knows she has entered 'his' room and tries to add her to his collection of dead wives, the tuner vows to stay with her knowing he won't be able to save her; yet at the last moment her mother arrives and murders the Marquis.
The Snow Child.
A Count & Countess go riding the middle of winder, and the Count sees the snow, a pool of blood & a raven and wishes for a child to match all the elements. As soon as he made his final wish a young woman of matching description appears at the side of the road. The Count pays her immediate attention which annoys the Countess, so she commands the girl to pick a rose but the thorn pricks her and she dies, after which the Count then rapes her corpse. After this, her cadaver melts into snow leaving a bloodstain on the snow, a black feather and the rose she picked.
Angela Carter's works in the Bloody Chamber have massively influenced my written work as I have transformed many of her works into different mediums including turning The Erl-King into a film script. I really enjoy doing this as it allows me to show my creativity whilst still having a strong starting point.
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