The invention of Angela Carter: a biography

1. A matriarchal clan

2. 'States of grace are always evil

3. Flight from a closed room

4. Just a wife

5. A slapstick nightmare

6. Giving the flash more substance

7. Happiness is ego-shaped

8. The edge of the unimaginable'

9. Vertigo

10. The dressing-up box of the heart

11. Blueprints for new lifestyles

12. Constructing a personality

13. Yet another foreign country

14. Isn't the identity fragile?

15. The silences with which the English compose intimacies

16. The tales of terror groove

17. No. I lash lady

18. American ghosts

19. A psychedelic Dickens

20. Doomed to love

21. A lifestyle of paradoxical propriety

22. I refuse to play in tragedy

23. Perhaps writing is a matter of life and death

24. Call it a happy ending

25. How sweet it was!

Epilogue.