A COLLECTION  by Angela Slatter
PUBLICATION DATE  May 2025
COVER ART & INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS  Kathleen Jennings
PAGES 218
ISBN  978-1 80394-363-3

EDITION
Trade Paperback.

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