Edmund Gordon is the author of The Invention of Angela Carter. He teaches creative writing at King's College London.
Edmund Gordon, who has written a biography of Angela Carter, introduces Carter’s landmark collection of short stories, The Bloody Chamber.
Rick Moody remembered his first encounter with Carter at a creative writing seminar: ‘Some young guy in the back … raised his hand and, with a sort of withering scepticism, asked, “Well, what’s...
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