A story by this author ends with the narrator imagining hairs strung on a fiddle crying out “Mother, mother, you have murdered me!” after she strangles the title character with his own hair and releases his caged birds. In another story by this author, a man gives the narrator a fire opal ring that had been in his family since an ancestor received it from Catherine de’ Medici. This author wrote about a feral girl taken in by nuns in the story “Wolf-Alice.” In a story by this author, a wealthy marquis gives the narrator a choker made of rubies, prefiguring his plan to decapitate her and place her body in a room with the corpses of his previous wives. “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” and “The Company of Wolves” are among this author’s Gothic, feminist adaptations of fairy tales. For 10 points, name this author of The Bloody Chamber. ■END■
ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Pearce; or Angela Olive Stalker]
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