Guillermo del Toro isn’t just an Oscar-winning filmmaker—he’s a diehard fan of all things horror, especially monsters . He famously has an entire dwelling, dubbed Bleak House , to contain his wonderfully grim collection of art, artifacts, props, and other covetable items, but even someone with del Toro’s generous resources understands the importance of downsizing from time to time. An upcoming auction will serve to give some of his treasures new homes.

In a Heritage Auctions press release (with an accompanying video interview ), del Toro explained why he’s trimming a small corner of his Bleak House inventory. “I have collected for decades,” he said. “I believe that collecting is not owning. Collecting is protecting, a sacred duty, being a keeper of a flame, an acolyte.”

But the re

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