Strange fictive fruits and other victuals

Having finished Angela Carter's collected writings entitled Shaking A Leg, some 640 pages of nonfiction pieces, I have embarked on her collected short stories, Burning Your Boats, with an introduction by Salman Rushdie. Thus far I have read work from 1962-1979, and it is getting curiouser and stranger. There are a couple of vaguely realistic yet surreal, and kind of straight narratives from her earliest years, but most of them are beyond fractured fairy tales. One of the stories from 1979 is the title tale of the collection The Bloody Chamber. I have heard that this story shows up in feminist literature surveys, but I wonder if Carter wrote it as an empowerment thing. There are several stories which are twists on old folk and fairy tales, but with events and vocabulary I never encountered in the Brothers Grimm. She evidently liked screwing around with old stories, and the results can be spicy and disconcerting. There's a humorous version of "Puss-in-Boots" that is worthy of The Canterbury Tales in its bawdiness.
Not like any bedtime stories I ever heard before...