A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote "Nights at the Circus", "The Magic Toyshop" and "Shadow Dance".
Territories: Chatto and Windus: British Commonwealth & European Community ex. Canada & Australia
Penguin Putnam Inc: United States ex. Canada
Vintage: British Commonwealth
Czech: Dybbuk
French: Christian Bourgois (France)
Galician: Edicions Xerais de Galicia SA
Japanese: Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Spanish: Minotauro (Spain)
Other Angela Carter, Estate of Titles
