It is Carters genius, in tion, to make ty and t a metapions. No is ty . In quot;ts; it is for ty to save ts life, igers Bridequot;, Beauty ically transformed into an exquisite animal ;. . . eacroke of ongue ripped off skin after skin, all t be patina of urned back to er. . . I siful fur.quot; As tamorpo a nerument of desire, allo;animalquot; in tual as igeris;t;, y and t  be reconciled.  revenge.

    tion expands to take in many otales; blood and love, ale, underlie and unify t;t; love and blood unite in ty grorous, Beastly. In quot;t; ale territory of s ers modern imagination kno for every Count tess, olerate asy-rival. ttle of t betoo.

    tes and perfects Carters brilliant, reinventing syntion t Grandmot actually be t;t;); or equally radical, equally s t ty) mig; t s conquer tory sexuality, ic ;, and to cer made ogetives, is to long for te.

    quot;olf-Alicequot; offers final metamorpy, only ts: a cannibal Duke, and a girl reared by ery of  is, rual flow. By blood, and by w s make a house uncosy.

    At lengtains becomes

    monotonous. . . urned and stared at tain

    for a long time.  for fourteen years

    but  before as it might look

    to someone  as almost a part

    of to it,  turn into

    so muco th for

    an old country tale, tale of a child suckled by

    wolves, perhaps, or of wolves nursed by a woman.

    Carters fareo ain-country, at t ory, quot;Peter and t; in Black Venus, signals t, like ;tramped ono a different