One story by this author describes a man cutting the head and paws off of a trapped creature in a pit, which turns into a human corpse. The protagonist of that story by this author is a girl who encounters a hunter in a green coat, who bets her a kiss that he can use a compass to beat her to her destination. She created a character who loses her virginity to her husband in a bed surrounded by a dozen mirrors while she wears a ruby choker. This author of "The Company of Wolves" gave a fictionalized account of (*) Jeanne Duval, the black mistress of Baudelaire, in the title story of her collection Black Venus. She wrote a novel in which Jack Walser becomes enamored of 
One story by this author describes a man cutting the head and paws off of a trapped creature in a pit, which turns into a human corpse. The protagonist of that story by this author is a girl who encounters a hunter in a green coat, who bets her a kiss that he can use a compass to beat her to her destination. She created a character who loses her virginity to her husband in a bed surrounded by a dozen mirrors while she wears a ruby choker. This author of "The Company of Wolves" gave a fictionalized account of (*) Jeanne Duval, the black mistress of Baudelaire, in the title story of her collection Black Venus. She wrote a novel in which Jack Walser becomes enamored of Sophie Fevvers, an aerialist who grew wings after hatching from an egg. For 10 points, name this author who wrote the novel Nights at the Circus and who gave feminist reinterpretations of fairy tales in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
One story by this author describes a man cutting the head and paws off of a trapped creature in a pit, which turns into a human corpse.
Angela Carter