At the end of a story by this author, the “brilliant, baleful splendour” of a rejuvenated rose fills the barracks of a regiment departing for France. A bicyclist drinking from a village fountain is invited to dinner by a mute housekeeper in this author’s story “The Lady of the House of Love.” The protagonist’s mother shoots a man wielding an ancestral sword at the end of a story this author set in a seaside (*) castle. One of this author’s characters is marked on the forehead by a bloodstained key. “The Company of Wolves” appears among three lupine stories at the end of a collection by this author. A new bride sees torture devices after she enters the Marquis’s forbidden room in this author’s retelling of the Bluebeard story. For 10 points, name this author of “The Bloody Chamber.” ■END■
ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Pearce; or Angela Olive Stalker]
<Albert Nyang, British Literature>
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