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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.


Los Fantasmas: Lamento

Extinct Monsters Hall in Natural History Museum, late 1930s

The Rocky Horror Show

Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey

Knight, Death, and the Devil

10c The Legend of Sleepy Hollow single

Classic Comics No. 26: Frankenstein

Ram's Head With Rocks And Skeletons (from the portfolio "A Bestiary and Some Correspondences")

"The Vampire"

Giant squid of the Newfoundland Banks. From a painting by Herbert B. Judy from Sea-shore life.

Mask

Sea Monster and Duck Mask

The Mirror

Squid Costume Design for the Opera "Sadko" by Rimsky-Korsakov

Skateboard deck

Skull Face

Edgar Allan Poe I, from the suite Edgar Allan Poe

Ojime

Boris Karloff

Vampire Bats, from Lettered Creatures

Bela Lugosi in "Dracula"

Murder by the Mill

Molossus rufus nigricans

Mr. Bones Skeleton Marionette

Prop egg from Alien 3 trailer

32c The Phantom of the Opera single

Collared Peccary from The quadrupeds of North America.

Tasmanian Devil

Death

Plate 30, X, Très Admirable Bestiaire Fantastique (Very Admirable Fantastic Bestiary)

Insignia, VMF-531 Grey Ghosts, United States Marine Corps

A whiteface steer charging the camera

Ghost Ranch (39 of 48)

Ghost Clock

Laughter from a Tomb, No Wonder the Neighbors Complain

Angel of Death

(The Wayward Muse, portfolio) Proserpine, Once Again the Hills and Vales Throb with Savage Glee


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