The Curious Room

The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera is a collection of dramatic works by English writer Angela Carter, published posthumously by Chatto and Windus in 1996.
Edited and with production notes provided by Mark Bell, with an introduction by Susannah Clapp, the contents include her original film screenplays for The Company of Wolves and The Magic Toyshop, both adapted from her own stories. Additional contents include a libretto for an opera based on Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, as well as five radio plays: "Vampirella", which she then reworked as "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Bloody Chamber collection; "The Company of Wolves"; "Puss in Boots" ; and two "artificial biographies", one of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, and the other of Edwardian novelist Ronald Firbank. The collection also includes the unproduced screenplays Gun for the Devil and The Christchurch Murders, as well a stage adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Lulu plays.