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Company Of Wolves
The third version of the narrative, written by acclaimed horror genre author Angela Carter, offers a darker take. Her version is entitled “The Company of Wolves,” and begins with the story of a sheltered child who travels through the woods in order to bring cakes and treats to her sick and elderly grandmother. The girl is young and inexperienced, so she rejects the potential danger that the woods may possess. As she is traveling, she hears loud howling, and then the huntsman appears from the depths of the forest. He begins to strike up a conversation with her and they start walking together. She gives him her basket to carry, even though her knife is in it, as the huntsman has a rifle. The huntsmen tells her he knows a shortcut to her grandmother’s
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