horrors

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The guillotine blade that was allegedly used comes from the Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors, by descent from the family of Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, whose son Henri may have pulled the lever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Carnivorous plants have long captured popular imagination, portrayed to exaggeration in cult classics such as The Addams Family and Little Shop of Horrors as meat-eating monsters.

From National Geographic • Feb. 5, 2024

A House of Mirrors might have been preferable to the House of Horrors the Kraken found themselves wandering through just four minutes into this Bell Centre contest.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023

Artists from Madame Tussauds were also in courtroom number one, sketching the two latest villains the attraction hoped to install in its Chamber of Horrors.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2023

Horrors lurked in the primeval forest, not nymphs and naiads.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton