The 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!

Next time you see one of Gregory Maguire’s reworked faerie-tale novels on the shelves, take a moment to thank his predecessor, ANGELA CARTER (1940–1992). The English author spent the ’60s and ’70s ripping apart old-fashioned concepts of fantasy and myth and putting them back together in stranger, more modern shapes, from the short-story collection The Bloody Chamber to the novel The Magic Toyshop to the werewolf movie The Company of Wolves.