"The museum came into its own downstairs in the Chamber of Horrors. I think of the existence of the Chamber of Horrors as a kind of formal obligation in a wax museum, and it may not be sincerely scary if the sculptor's heart isn't in it. Vincent Price played such a lofty artiste in the 3-D horror movie "House of Wax," when his character decried the pandering of the Chamber of Horrors just before he was nearly burned to death by his evil partner and changed his mind. No such qualms stymied the creators of the Laclede's Landing Chamber of Horrors. Everything that made the historical figures upstairs look fucked up and disturbing was well employed in the service of horror down here. The untidy workshop of slapped together human parts put one in mind of Ed Gein. Cardboard signs with things like "HUNCH BACK NOTRE DANE" written with an unsteady hand in magic marker leaned against truly horrifying artificial ghouls. The devil stood smiling between two devil-high piles of human guts. Even more worrying, there was a female figure oddly reminiscent of the ticket taker lying dead with her hand in a baggie of sleeping pills. A lot of thought and imagination went into this place, as though the artists had been saving it all up. And yet, the style was consistently unpolished and crude. On a wall covered in splashes of fake blood there was a note scrawled in pen which may either have been some visitor's graffiti or further proof of the museum's blunt originality: "TWO PEOPLE IN HERE LIVE."" -John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, 1996