2015 Squick or Squee Week V: Les Coupeurs de Têtes

Introduction Horst Dounichdy-Glokken re-imagines some poor woman lost in a green hell. Image This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Source The Artist and a Note Horst Dounichdy-Glokken, born 1972 in Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, Alsace, studied Communications Design and Psychology in Brussels and Berlin. She works as a freelance consultant for politicians […]

2015 Squick or Squee Week III: Le jardin des supplices

Introduction The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, which existed in Paris from 1897 to 1962, provided a form of theatrical horror sufficiently impressive that its name lives on in the English language. (If someone tells you you’re in for a “grand-guignol experience,” expected to be scared, or at least shocked.) It also left behind some remarkable promotional […]