Plumedini's True Tales of Super Chicken Freaks as Retold by C... by John Brady Woodson

Here are 10 terrific books that breathe fresh life into the familiar: I took inspiration from others who dared find new relevance in old tales. I decided to recast Wharton’s classic as The Smash-Up, setting it during a volatile week in 2018, when nothing was simple and no place isolated from the madness. This time, Zenobia intrigued me: why was she so angry? Meanwhile, Mattie’s ultimate transformation – from adorable innocent to some monstrous new thing – seemed less tragic than inevitable. Who could choose Zenobia, Ethan’s sickly crone of a wife, over the sparkling young Mattie Silver? A few years ago – by then a wife and a mother of daughters living inside the chaos and rage of Trump’s America – I returned to the book. The story is spare, quiet: a farmer, trapped in a loveless marriage, longs for warmth amid the isolation of a cruel New England winter. 'The Scarlet House', 'The Snow Pavilion' and 'The Quilt Maker'.At 15, I read Ethan Frome, a 1911 Edith Wharton novella about a small-town love triangle. 'Lizzie's Tiger', 'John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore', 'Gun for the Devil', 'The Merchant of Shadows', 'The Ghost Ships', 'In Pantoland', 'Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost', 'Alice in Prague or The Curious Room' and 'Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene'. American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993).'Black Venus', 'The Kiss', 'Our Lady of the Massacre', 'The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Peter and the Wolf', 'The Kitchen Child' and 'The Fall River Axe Murders'. Black Venus (aka 'Saints and Strangers') (1985).

'The Bloody Chamber', 'The Courtship of Mr Lyon', 'The Tiger's Bride', 'Puss-in-Boots', 'The Erl-King', 'The Snow Child', 'The Lady of the House of Love', 'The Werewolf, 'The Company of Wolves' and 'Wolf-Alice'. 'A Souvenir of Japan', 'The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter', 'The Loves of Lady Purple', 'The Smile of Winter', 'Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest', 'Flesh and the Mirror', 'Master', 'Reflections' and 'Elegy for a Freelance'. 'The Man Who Loved a Double Bass', 'A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home' and 'A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)'. Cover of the first edition, published by Chatto & Windus. The book also includes an introduction by author Salman Rushdie. It includes stories previously collected in her other short story collections: Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces ( 1974), The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories ( 1979), Black Venus (aka Saints and Strangers) ( 1985) and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders ( 1993) as well as six previously un-collected stories. Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories ( 1995) is a posthumously-published collection of short stories by English writer Angela Carter.

Plumedini's True Tales of Super Chicken Freaks as Retold by C... by John Brady Woodson