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Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye (The Tales of my Mother Goose) influenced The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Added by Media Influence Map · 25 September 2026
The influence
Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye The Tales of my Mother Goose
Short Story · 1697
The work it shaped
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Short Story · 1979
The evidence
Angela Carter translated Perrault's tales in 1977 and rewrote them in The Bloody Chamber two years later. The title story is Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots gets his own story, and the wolf stories answer Little Red Riding Hood.
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