A Theater of Flesh

Author: Jean Charles Ray

Playhouse Thoughts: Classic Cthulhu in a theatre, the author clearly knows the subject matter very well and there’s lots of insightful little goodies inside!

Blurb: In this scenario for the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu, the investigators venture into 1920s Paris, specifically the red-light district of Pigalle and its scandalous Grand-Guignol, the theater of thrills and chills. They go there on the invitation of Mary Riley who makes her debut on its stage. However, after a performance as titillating as it is frightening, the young actress disappears without a trace. Behind the laughter and the froufrou, Pigalle suddenly reveals a disturbing face, and the investigators sink little by
little into horror when they discover that the Grand-Guignol might conceal realities worse than its fictions behind its curtains. What is really going on in this dead-end theatre and what happened to Mary Riley?