Dream Machines

THE BEST OF ANGELA CARTER

SHADOW DANCE
A pair of junk dealers spends nights stripping condemned houses of Victoriana, until one of them goes mad and commits a grisly murder. A

THE MAGIC TOYSHOP
A trio of young orphans is sent to live with their dictatorial Uncle Philip, a toy maker who spends his evenings building a macabre theater of life-size puppets. A

In SEVERAL PERCEPTIONS
a failed suicide finds himself suddenly prey to a series of frightening hallucinations. A

THE INFERNAL DESIRES OF DR. HOFFMAN
A wonderfully mad scientist invents a device that unleashes dreams into reality. Which, come to think of it, is what Angela Carter does, exactly. A