Grand Guignol

== English == === Alternative forms === grand guignol === Etymology === Popular form of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol. === Proper noun === Grand Guignol (historical) A Parisian theatre which specialized in grotesque and grisly horror shows. (by extension) That which thrives on grotesquery and gore. 1926 June 19 [U.S. publication date in the Illustrated London News], G. K. Chesterton, "Spain and the Color Black", reprinted in, 1991, the Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, volume XXIV, The Illustrated London News, 1926-1928, Ignatius Press, →ISBN, pages 112-113 I may remark, in passing, that I did not go to see any bullfights... . But if I had preferred a Grand Guignol thrill to a great experience of a great nation,... . 1987, Simon Watney, "The Spectacle of AIDS", reprinted as chapter 13 of, 1993, Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (eds.), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Routledge, →ISBN, page 206 Hence the incomparably strange reincarnation of the cultural figure of the male homosexual as a predatory, determined invert, wrapped in a Grand Guignol cloak of degeneracy theory, and casting his lascivious eyes-and hands-out from the pages of Victorian sexology manuals and onto "our" children, and above all onto "our" sons. ==== Derived terms ==== Grande Dame Guignol === Further reading === Grand Guignol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia