As he is about to decapitate the girl, her mother shows up and saves her by shooting and killing the Marquis.
The piano tuner attempts to save her, but being a blind man he is unable to thwart the Marquis. Now that she learned of this secret, the Marquis believes it is time she joins his previous wives in the secret room. The girl contacts her mother, afraid and lonely, confiding in her about her marriage, however the Marquis returns abruptly and discovers that she had gone into the chamber she was not supposed to enter. In this room she finds a collection of dead bodies that the girl discovers are the Marquis’ previous wives, whom he had killed as part of his sexual homicidal perversions. One night the Marquis travels to America on business and leaves the girl alone in the castle, and wanting to discover more about this man that she is married to, she searches through his things and even enters a private chamber that the Marquis had expressly forbade her from entering. Another young man, a blind piano tuner, also inhabits this castle from time to time, and one evening, hears the girl playing a beautiful song on the piano, and falls deeply in love with her. The teenage girl does not love him, yet this wealthy man takes her back to his castle and attempts to make her enact embarrassing sexual acts for his pleasure. The Bloody Chamber story, based on the legend of Bluebeard the pirate, is the tale of a teenage girl and talented pianist who marries an older French Marquis who was known to have wed many wives. Lyon, The Tiger’s Bride, Puss-in-Boots, The Erl-King, The Snow Child, The Lady of the House of Love, the Werewolf, The Company of Wolves and Wolf-Alice. The list of short stories available within this collection are as follows: The Bloody Chamber, The Courtship of Mr. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter is a book containing the titular short story followed by a collection of nine other stories, all of which are darker and more adult renditions of common fairytales.
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