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Things That Scare Us: Our Favorite Spooky Collection Items

Take a tour of some of our favorite spooky collection items. While you’re in the mood, the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery exhibited the appropriately creepy Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death that featured exquisitely detailed miniature crime scenes used to train homicide investigators. Visit Sidedoor to hear the podcast backstory of this highly unusual woman.


Costume Design: Witches, for Falstaff

Mechanical doll, “The Wonderful Creeping Baby”

Teapot

Bottlecap Lion

Monkey mask

Muñeca de La Llorona

Creeping Baby Doll Patent Model

White Spider

Devil Jug

Black and White Tipped Flower

Edgar Allan Poe

Shapes of Fear

Maudeline Everglot Stop Action Figure from Corpse Bride

Self-Portrait without Skin

Mad Scientist And The Bionic Tomato Painting

Asian Lesser False Vampire Bat

Audience watching "House on Haunted Hill"

Ghost Plate with Mickey Mouse Ears

Apocalypse '42

Bicycle Girl bust used on the television series, The Walking Dead

Pair of Earrings

Arsenous Acid - Dispensary Tablets No. 2 - 1/2 Grain - Poison

33c Jumping Spider single

Industrial Waste Teapot

Skull and crossbones fancy cancel handstamp

Memorial

Nenabush, Man-God, Fought the Evil Monsters of Earth, Air, and Water, from the series Legends of the Lenape Indians

Skull of Zurbarán

The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane

Onoe Shoroku as a ghost

Spooky on the Line

Pendant

Stephen King

Carreta de Muerte (Death Cart)

Untitled (Frankenstein masks)


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