American Ghosts & Old World Wonders by Angela Carter

American Ghosts & Old World Wonders by Angela Carter. 1993 Chatto & Windus, first edition, 146 pages. Carter was a British author whose fiction had a touch of magic. Salmon Rushdie wrote in her New York Times obituary: " repeat: Angela Carter was a great writer. I repeat this because in spite of her worldwide reputation, here in Britain she somehow never quite had her due. Of course, many writers knew that she was that rare thing, a real one-off, nothing like her on the planet; and so did many bewitched, inspired readers. But for some reason she was not placed where she belonged -- at the center of the literature of her time, at the heart. [...] With Angela Carter's death English literature has lost its high sorceress, its benevolent witch-queen, a burlesque artist of genius and antic grace." American Ghosts was her last collection of short fiction. Condition: VG "She died of the pressure of that vast sky, that weighed down upon her and crushed her lungs until she could not bre