By Caroline Stauffer

TORONTO (Reuters) -Director Guillermo del Toro is facing his own mortality and confronting the reality of frequent natural disasters by auctioning part of his collection of monsters and fantasy objects that are frequently the subject of his gothic films.

After a third of the items in his collection of film mementos and artwork are sold in a three-part auction starting this month, del Toro joked that visitors to his Bleak House collection in suburban Los Angeles wouldn’t be able to tell anything is missing. Still, choosing what to part with was hard.

“I’m not just going to auction things without them hurting a little,” del Toro said in an interview in Toronto, where he lives part time. His latest film “Frankenstein” screened at the Toronto International Film Festival

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