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Things That Scare Us

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.

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  • Wood Monsters
  • 32c The Mummy single
  • skekEkt the Ornamentalist Skeksis Puppet Head from The Dark Crystal
  • Ursula animation cel from The Little Mermaid
  • Head of Medusa
  • Edison Talking Doll
  • Soft Bathtub (Model) - Ghost Version
  • The Haunted House
  • Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
  • 32c The Wolf Man single
  • Untitled (Skeleton)
  • The Spider Monster In The Cave
  • urSu the Master Mystic Puppet Head from The Dark Crystal
  • The Antikamnia Calendar, May and June, 1897: The First Tooth
  • Boris Karloff in "Frankenstein"
  • Skull and crossbones handstamp
  • lantern; decoration, holiday

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