London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror by Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson, Noël Coward, Victor MacClure, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Reginald Berkeley, Christopher Holland, André de Lorde, Gladys Unger, H.F. Maltby, Michael W. Wilson, Richard Hughes, Pierre Chaine

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London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror

Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson, Noël Coward, Victor MacClure, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Reginald Berkeley, Christopher Holland, André de Lorde, Gladys Unger, H.F. Maltby, Michael W. Wilson, Richard Hughes, Pierre Chaine

288 pages • first pub 2002 • 3 editions

nonfiction history horror informative tense fast-paced

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London’s Grand Guignol—a macabre theatre of naturalistic horror—was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. Taking its cue from Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris, this high-profile venture enjoyed as much critical ...