horror chamber

English

Noun

horror chamber (plural horror chambers)

  1. chamber of horrors
    • 1882, Walter Coote, Wanderings, South and East, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, page 308:
      I have nothing to say of the hundreds of minor churches; they are in the lowest style of vulgarly ornate decoration, and abound in sensational wax figures and tinsel ornament; the horror chamber in Baker Street would soothe the feelings after a visit to some of these shrines.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 155:
      Briefly, the characteristic symptoms that appear in peyotl intoxication are visual hallucinations and delusions, associated with "horror chambers".
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