Inside the Bloody Chamber

Sir Christopher Frayling is perhaps the most wide-ranging cultural historian of our times: the author of numerous publications on subjects ranging from vampires to Westerns; the writer and presenter of successful television series, whether on advertising, the Middle Ages or Tutankhamun. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, from 1996 to 2009, where he remains Professor Emeritus of Cultural History. His many public appointments have included Chairman of Arts Council England; Chairman of the Design Council; and the longest-serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Christopher Frayling is an archivist, a detective, an expert and aficionado and his memoir of Angela Carter in the 1970s gives an unexpected and altogether fascinating sighting of the writer - before anyone could know how epoch-defining her wit and brilliance would be. He then follows twists and turns in some of their shared interests - cartoons, film music, puppets, beasts (especially wolves), vampires, horror and the Gothic - and displays throughout irrepressable energy and detailed knowledge.'