A COLLECTION  by Angela Slatter
PUBLICATION DATE  May 2025
COVER ART & INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS  Kathleen Jennings
PAGES 218
ISBN  978-1-80394-362-6

EDITION
Jacketed Hardcover collection limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Angela Slatter.

ABOUT THE BOOK

With beautiful silhouette illustrations by the amazing multiple World Fantasy Award nominee Kathleen Jennings, Black-Winged Angels collects the nine reworked/reloaded fairytales for adult readers and the story “Flight” from the original 2014 Ticonderoga Publications edition. In addition, this edition includes “The Mer-Pearl” written specifically for the Dutch limited edition of the novel All the Murmuring Bones plus appendices including story notes, critical explanations or interpretations of the text and a bibliography
This book will appeal to fans of Angela Carter (“The Company of Wolves”) and Emma Donoghue (“Kissing the Witch”).

CONTENTS

• Introduction by Angela Slatter
• The Little Match Girl
• Red Skein
• The Girl With No Hands
• Light as Mist, Heavy as Hope
• Pressina’s Daughters
• The Juniper Tree
• The Danger of Warmth
• Bluebeard
• The Bone Mother
• Flight
• The Mer-Pearl
• Afterword & Story Notes
• Black-Winged Angels: Theoretical Underpinnings
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Part One – Literature Review
  (i) The Patriarchal Colonisation of Fairy tales
  (i)  A Woman’s Place in Fairy tales
• Part Two – Feminism and Fairy tales: Reclamation or Simple Inversion?
   (i)  Angela Carter
  (ii)  Emma Donoghue
• Part Three – New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing
• Appendix B – Tales and Concordance for Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch
• Appendix C – Tales and Concordance Angela Slatter’s Black-Winged Angels
• Bibliography