Content tagged with “horror” under “Stuff I Looked Up”

“This is technically French for ‘great puppet,’ but it usually refers to a theater in Paris called Théâtre du Grand Guignol (‘The Theater of the Great Puppet.’) It was known for its realistic, gruesome horror shows. Each performance would be several short plays. Here’s a description from a 1957 New…”

“This generally means ‘massive.’ Obviously, it comes from the root of Cyclops, the monster from Greek and Roman mythology. ‘Cyclops’ means ‘round eye’ which was used to describe a giant creature with one eye. The word seems to be common masonry industry, to refer to stonework done with large stones….”

“From the Greek word ‘khthon’ means ‘beneath the Earth.’ This is likely the root of ‘Cthulhu.’ From Wikipedia : Invented by Lovecraft in 1928, the name Cthulhu was probably chosen to echo the word chthonic (Ancient Greek ‘of the earth’), as apparently suggested by Lovecraft himself at the end of his…”