me on "The Bloody Chamber"

I'll admit I didn't do what Mr. F said to about posting something before i started reading it but I wasn't in a typing mood and then before I knew it I'd read three quarters of it...

Anyway, this book is strange to say the least.
So far I have read up to the end of The Lady of the House of Love (and there are definately things in that one which make me think a lot of the Twilight saga was based on it) and I'm enjoying it.
My favourite so far has been The Bloody Chamber and really I think this is the one with the most gothic elements in it as you get a feel from the beginning that something is already very wrong. Without attempting to spoil the end, I'd say that I think the conclusion to the story is quite controversial within the genre in that the hero is in fact a heroine in the end. The setting, use of foreshadowing and use of a virgin as the female victim make it all very typically gothic.

I wouldn't label all the stories in it as gothic, for example Puss in Boots is quite a mellow, fun story that just happens to end in death.

There are themes in the stories that don't immediately come to mind when you think of fairytales, as these are. Incest, intraspecies sex, necrophilia and other weird stuff like that.

My least favourite was The Snow Child because I think it's supposed to be Snow White or Sleeping Beauty or something and I just can't see it. Also IT'S REALLY ODD. Please read it now so you can be disturbed with me.

That's enough for now.