Sentence:  Hence the incomparably strange reincarnation of the cultural figure of the male homosexual as a predatory, determined invert, wrapped in a <WSD>Grand Guignol</WSD> cloak of degeneracy theory, and casting his lascivious eyes-and hands-out from the pages of Victorian sexology manuals and onto "our" children, and above all onto "our" sons. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  That which thrives on grotesquery and gore.