Day: November 1, 2011

Front facade of Houghton Library

Horrors of the Grand Guignol

[Thanks to Micah Hoggatt, Reference Assistant, for contributing this post.] Once a year at Halloween we surround ourselves with horror and fright for a day. From 1897 to 1962, terror was enjoyed regularly in Montmartre. Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol may have inhabited a former church (retaining the confessional seating and carved, suspended angels), but it…