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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.


Mummy from Grave

Fear

Kneeling winged monster

Death Cart

Panic

Kneeling winged monster

Peter Lorre in "M"

Evolving Space (Study for "Against You, Dove Assassins")

Cane with Rattlesnake, Lizard and Spider

Le Tumulte Noir/Woman Dancing with Death

(The Wayward Muse, portfolio) From the Book of Verse by the Smoking Lamp, I Turn to Watch the Phantom Shadows

Pesterin' the Ghost Bear for Secrets

Head of Man Expressive of Horror

Three ships surrounded by monsters

Medusa (Laura Dreyfus Barney)

Death

Print

Premature Death

Skull

Pendant Design

urSol the Chanter Mystic Puppet Head from The Dark Crystal

Nixon on Horseback

Old Corruption, from Illustrations to the songs from William Blake's "Island in the Moon"

Lily Ludlow and Chloë Sevigny in costume

Devil on a Root Monster

Skull

Ghost Town

Máscara de Carnaval

Wood Monsters

skekEkt the Ornamentalist Skeksis Puppet Head from The Dark Crystal

The Antikamnia Calendar, November and December, 1897: A Withered Blossom

Ursula animation cel from The Little Mermaid

Head of Medusa

The Antikamnia Calendar, September and October, 1897: An Opening Bud

urSu the Master Mystic Puppet Head from The Dark Crystal

Edison Talking Doll


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