Grimms Märchen (Grimms' fairy tales) influenced The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Three of the collection's stories rework Little Red Riding Hood, which the Grimms printed as Rotkappchen and which is the version with the huntsman and the rescue. Carter takes the tale apart across The Werewolf, The Company of Wolves and Wolf-Alice, and removes the rescue every time: the girl deals with the wolf herself, or joins him. The Grimms had already softened a bloodier oral tale into a warning for children, and Carter's move is to put back what the softening removed, which is why the debt is to this printed version specifically rather than to folklore in general.