Black Venus (short story collection)

Black Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers) is a collection of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1985 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. and contains eight stories, the majority of which are concerned with re-imagining the lives of certain figures in history, with a particular emphasis on some well known through literature.

Black Venus

Hardback edition cover
Author	Angela Carter
Original title	Saints and Strangers
Language	English
Genre	Anthology
Published	1985 by Chatto & Windus
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	121 pp
ISBN	978-0-7011-3964-3
OCLC	15631047

The "Black Venus" of the title story is Jeanne Duval, the lover of poet Charles Baudelaire.^[1] The anthology's contents are also reprinted in the volume Burning Your Boats, which features all of Carter's short fiction.^[1]

Contents

1. “Black Venus”
2. “The Kiss”
3. “Our Lady of the Massacre”
4. “The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe”
5. “Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream”
6. “Peter and the Wolf”
7. “The Kitchen Child”
8. “The Fall River Axe Murders”^[2]