The Grand Guignol: Theater of Fear and Terror by Mel Gordon

This has been coming up recently- this theater was a big part of the plot in another book I just read, The Bones of Paris; and then I found out that the film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover was available for streaming (never been released to DVD, in 24 years) and I watched it with Spider Jerusalem.

So I tracked down a book about it…just what I wanted, a short history, descriptions of plays and a few scripts. Interesting without being too bogged down in details.