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She adapted a number of her short
stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. Two of
her fictions have been adapted for the silver screen: The Company of Wolves (1984) and The
Magic Toyshop (1987). She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are
published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a
libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The
Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and
other works. These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, The Holy
Family Album, are discussed in Charlotte Crofts' book, Anagrams of Desire (2003). Her novel
Nights at the Circus won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature.
At the time of her death, Carter had started work on a sequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre based