She took issue with Bettelheim's assertion that fairy tales are "consoling" to children, and challenged his assertions by unearthing themes of rape, torture, murder, incest, and cannibalism in her own versions. When Carter wrote The Bloody Chamber, she had been reading the work of Bruno Bettelheim, who inspired her to seek out the psychological aspects to fairy tales. She said, "I was taking the latent image - the latent content of those traditional stories and using that and the latent content is violently sexual, and because I am a woman I read it that way." She also said that despite their female focus, her stories might "affect men much more than women," because in her opinion, women already recognize the falseness in literature that "mythologizes" them. In her view, she was simply exposing the previously obscured core content of fairy tales.
Many consider The Bloody Chamber to be a feminist reworking of the patriarchal fairy tale form, yet Carter expressly said otherwise. It was first published in 1979, at which time it won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature prize. The Bloody Chamber is a collection of short stories by legendary British writer Angela Carter, whose untimely death in 1992 brought her work extensive critical attention.
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