Chapter 2 Contents

The Man Who Loved a Double Bass A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home A Victorian Fable (with Glossary) FIREWORKS: NINE PROFANE PIECES, 1974 A Souvenir of Japan The Executioners Beautiful Daughter The Loves of Lady Purple The Smile of Winter Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest Flesh and the Mirror Master Reflections Elegy for a Freelance THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES, 1979 The Bloody Chamber The Courtship of Mr Lyon The Tigers Bride Puss-in-Boots The Erl-King The Snow Child The Lady of the House of Love The Werewolf The Company of Wolves

Wolf-Alice BLACK VENUS, 1985 Black Venus The Kiss Our Lady of the Massacre The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Nights Dream Peter and the Wolf The Kitchen Child The Fall River Ax Murders AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS, 1993 Lizzies Tiger John Fords Tis Pity Shes a Whore Gun for the Devil The Merchant of Shadows The Ghost Ships In Pantoland Ashputtle or The Mothers Ghost Alice in Prague or The Curious Room Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene The Scarlet House The Snow Pavilion The Quilt Maker Afterword to Fireworks

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