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The Bloody Chamber, The Tiger's Bride, The Company of Wolves, Werewolf…
The Bloody Chamber
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Premise
A young bride travels from Paris with her much older husband, she describes her introduction to a world of luxury and pleasure. The Marquis leaves to attend to business. He asks her not to go into his private study. After ringing her mum, she explores the house. She goes into the forbidden room and finds the remains of the Marquis' ex wives. The Marquis returns - not happy, but the mother saves her from save fate of previous wives.
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The Tiger's Bride
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"the white rose, unnatural, out of season"
Premise
A father loses his daughter to The Beast in a game of cards. She is taken to an isolated mansion and refuses The Beast's voyeuristic requests. He reveals he is an animal, she decides to be with him and she changes into an animal herself.
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The Company of Wolves
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"it is your granddaughter, he mimicked"
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"Sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's, between the paws of the tender wolf"
Premise
The wolves in the winter forest are hungry. A girl sets off through the forest to her granny's house, she meets a young man who bets her a kiss if he can get to granny's house before her. The young man/wolf gets there first and eats granny. The young girl sleeps soundly in granny's bed with the wolf.
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Werewolf
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"their houses are built of logs, dark and smoky within"
Premise
A child is sent to her grandmother and she encounters a huge wolf. Unafraid, she draws her knife and cuts off its right forepaw. The child comes to her grandmother's and finds her unwell. As the child takes a cloth from her basket, the wolf's paw falls out and it has transformed into a human hand. The child recognises it as her grandmother's. The child cries out and the neighbours come. They beat the old woman and stone her to death. The girl moves into her grandmother's house and prospers.
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The Courtship of Mr Lyon
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Premise
Poor man and daughter are stranded on their way home, he goes to the Beast's house but offends him by taking a rose. Daughter stays with the Beast while her father is helped. She returns to father and Beast almost dies. She goes back to the Beast and transforms him with a kiss.
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Wolf Alice
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"the moon, the governess of transformation"
"he sees, no where, a reflection of himself"
Premise
A girl raised by wolves is brought back to human society and is placed in the care of the Duke (a werewolf). The girl grows up and discovers clothes. The Duke (haunting as a wolf) is wounded by an angry widower. The girl tends to the wolf's wounds and he becomes a Duke again.
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