Maybe the world's oldest horror-themed cafe, this was a popular Paris tourist attraction over 100 years ago! See more photos and read about it here The club L'Enfer I remember in Brussels (with its very similar Devil's Mouth doorway) was probably inspired by this French original.
CAFE FRANKENSTEIN, Venice, California
I read about this in Famous Monsters of Filmland. It must have been around in the late 50s, early 60's. It had Frankenstein murals by one of the artists who did the covers for FMOF. Probably Basil Gogos. Wonder what happened to the murals?
CYBERRY ROCO COMIX CAFE
62 Shepherd's Bush Road, London W6 7PH, England
Nearest tube station: Shepherd's Bush.
Situated on Boulevard De Clichy beside Hotel de Place Blanche. One of many theme cafes opened in Montmartre towards the end of the 19th Century.
There are a number of accounts of what this cafe had to offer:
Bohemian Paris --Jerrold Seiger
Viking Penguin 1986
Chapter 8 Publicity and Fantasy:
The World of the Cabarets
Pg.240
"One cabaret dubbed itself "Heaven," placing its visitors among clouds, angels, and harps. Its opposite, the Cabaret de l'Enfer, draped itself in the trappings of hell, its waiters dressed in devil costumes. Clients entered its doors through the gaping mouth of a monster, cut into the facade whose misshapen windows were set off by what seemed a kind of solidified primal ooze, within which the nude bodies of sinners were suspended. "
Bohemian Paris of Today
by W.C. Morrow & Edouard Cucuel
(London, 1899)
[ see chapter called "A Night in Montmartre ]
(pg 276 to 285 & 2 line drawings)
"..we will explore hell." Mr. Thomkins seemed too weak, or unresisting, or apathetic to protest. His face betrayed a queer mixture of emotion, part suffering, part revulsion, part a sort of desperate eagerness for more.
