Grand Guignol (2nd Edition)

Grand Guignol gives us crooked alleys and foggy squares, charged touches and words left unsaid, lavish parties and faceless crowds, bloody hands and dangerous smiles, and always the darkness without and within asking ‘What lurks in the secret corners of your heart?’.

In Grand Guignol we play as citizens of London in all its sprawling late-Victorian glory. Crowds pour in from the countryside as the Industrial Revolution shreds their livelihoods, while the factories bring nature and time themselves under imperial control. Predators consort with the powerful and prey upon the poor, while ancient powers stir and fell voices whisper temptation from the shadows.

Amongst it all we monsters and queers hold each other close, slay our demons, and live our lives. We flirt and feud, tremble and embrace, and hurt and heal one another as we cling together in the margins of this hostile world.

Our lives are shadow and mist—beautiful and ephemeral, impossible to tame. What secret histories might we write in dark streets where the gaslights don’t reach, in those corners of our tender hearts that neither God nor science has caged?