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

Pitkin joins a traveling circus, the Chamber of American Horrors.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

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

And I was likely to get it at Brisbane’s House of Horrors.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney