Ready for Valentine’s Day? Three Takeaways of Sex and Werewolfery from Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”

“Sweet and sound she sleeps in granny’s bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.” -AC

Trigger warning: Frank discussion of menstrual blood.

What do you get when you cross lycanthropy with a pubescent girl? The short story “The Company of Wolves,” by the late, great English author Angela Carter. The story is included in Carter’s book The Bloody Chamber and Other Adult Tales, which included some retellings of well-known fairy tales. This p…