Interesting Grand Guignol items are few and far between on Ebay these days, so it’s pretty exciting (to me, anyway) when several show up in one week:

Original Theatre du Grand Guignol Program from 1952-53

From the listing:

ANOTHER FABULOUS FIFTIES FRENCH THEATRE PROGRAM- “DU PLOMB CES DEMOISELLES”. OF COURSE WE HAVE THE GREAT VINTAGE PHOTOS OF THE ACTORS/ACTRESSES AND MOST DVINE ADS ( PERRIER, CHAMPAGNE DE CASTELLANE). THERE IS A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE DU GRAND GUIGNOL…. IN FRENCH OF COURSE. YOU WILL ALSO FIND  PASTE OVER NAMES OF SOME ACTORS/ACTRESSES AFFIXED ON  THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM.

CONDITION IS VERY GOOD: NO RIPS/TEARS, STAINS, WRITING OR CREASED PAGES. (20PP- B/W PHOTOS, AD ILUSTRATIONS/PHOTOS) MEASURES 4 3/4″ X 6″, NICE PAPER STOCK, VIVID RED COVER, BACK SIDE AD.

IF YOU LOVE FRENCH THEATRE… THIS IS THE REAL DEAL CIRCA FIFTIES !

1st Edition of Mel Gordon’s Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror – Out of Print

From the listing:

This entertaining and gruesome book covers the plays produced at the Grand Guignol theater, whose 60-year “reign of terror” began in 19th-century Paris. The contents include the scripts for two of these plays, so that you can act out your own blood-spurting, over-the-top productions. There’s also a listing with plot summaries for most of other Guignol productions. Lots of photographs throughout.

Condition: Top right corner of cover and first 20 or so pages are bent. Some wear on edges of cover. Interior pages are slightly yellowing at edges. No marks inside.

Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror by Hand/Wilson
(Not especially rare, but the starting bid is only 99 cents!)

From the listing:

Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror by Richard J. Hand & Michael Wilson. I paid stupid money for this book for a class I was in, and I ended up not even using it. That’s community college for you. Either way, it’s a nice softcover, but the real meat of the book lies in the ten authentic grand-guignol plays included in their entirity! I gave some thought to keeping it, but really I can’t be keeping everything these days. So whoever buys this: put on some of these plays so I can go see them, and I won’t feel as bad about getting rid of this book, haha! Condition is 8.5/10, some ultra-light wear on the corners, and a small yellow mark about 6 x 3 Centimeters on the right hand spine of pages.

As always, we don’t know these sellers and can’t personally vouch for them, but they all have 100% feedback ratings on Ebay, so we feel pretty comfortable recommending these auctions. Happy bidding.