Mel Gordon's Cabarets of Death Book by Mel Gordon & Joanna Ebenstein - Explore Dark History & Macabre Entertainment for Horror Enthusiasts

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A tour of three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.

From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusions. These cabarets were considered the most curious and widely featured amusements in the city. Entrepreneurs even hawked graphic postcards of their ironic spectacles and otherworldly interiors.