The Lady Of The House Of Love by Angela Carter
A sensual, gothic fable about a beautiful, vampiric young countess trapped in a decaying family estate, raised to enact a ritualized loneliness and to prey on lost travelers; haunted by mirrors, roses and ancestral myths, she longs for ordinary life but is imprisoned by fate and eroticized death—until a pragmatic young soldier arrives, whose humanity and innocence awaken desire and possibility, forcing a collision between myth and modernity that upends the curse and offers a bittersweet, ambiguous escape from the house’s doomed enchantments.
- Published
- 1979
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 12-20 pages
- Original Language
- English
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