This chapter examines Angela Carter’s story “The Bloody Chamber” as a modern Female Gothic based on the traditional Bluebeard tales. The analysis employs the Female Gothic as its main framework and uses the key concepts such as “transgression”, Kristeva’s “abject”, and Freudian concepts of the “superego” and “repression”. The study aims to reveal the systematic subjugation of women in a patriarchal domestic sphere. Carter intentionally uses a familiar fairy tale structure wherein the figure of Bluebeard, husband, patriarchy, the Marquis victimises and imprisons women by forming the source of fear and violence. Gothic tension and suspense are sustained through several key elements: the fearsome character of the Marquis, the terror of the forbidden chamber, a space containing the corpses of previous female victims, and the labyrinthine, eerie castle, deserted from the land by the sea. Carter subverts the typical motif by offering the transgression as both an inevitable patriarchal tool and an empowering journey for women that ultimately leads to self-discovery and freedom. Reintroduction of the mother figure in Carter’s version as the protector and saviour turns the traditional narrative trajectory into a story of female empowerment. The unnamed narrator is rescued from her impending death at the last moment when her mother arrives to kill the monstrous Marquis, turning the conventional fairy-tale ending into a powerful form of female agency.