Tales of the Grand Guignol
Centipede Press:
Lakewood: 2011
First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED limited, New sans dust jacket as issued,
519 pp.
This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies signed by editor S.T. Joshi and illustrator Jason C. Eckhardt. Not to be confused with the second edition. Includes one complete novel and more than a dozen short stories. “Maurice Level (1875-1926), was a French writer of fiction and drama who specialized in short stories of the macabre which were sometimes staged by le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, the repertory company in the Pigalle district devoted to melodramatic productions. Level’s short stories are strong on obsession and violence. Their surprise endings are reminiscent of the stories of Guy de Maupassant, and their gratuitous acts and mindless brutality, may be seen as precursors of thriller fiction and slasher films.” #46930
Price: $750.00