In his Buckingham museum of good and evil, curator Edmondo Crimi displays haunted dolls, Ouija boards, demonic paintings and Satan in frightening forms. But it’s the weapons to kill vampires that ...
Auction houses often sell off strange items. But sometimes, the offerings are downright batty. This week, an ornate kit for slaying vampires hit the block at an online sale mounted by Hansons ...
A philosophy class question: Can something be a fake if the original never existed? What if a painter worked up an outrageously good fake of Van Gogh’s “Saint Servatius Bridge at Maastricht,” when no ...
This box contains the items considered necessary for the protectionof persons who travel into certain little known countries in EasterEurope where the populace are plagued with a peculiar ...
In a “Weird Guns and Curious Collectibles” auction at Rock Island Auction this week, two vampire-slaying kits are among the items up for bid … just in time for Halloween. An item called “Vampire ...
Could there be such a thing as an “authentic” vampire slayer? While we can’t say for sure that vampires exist, an auction house in the UK has listed a 178-year-old vampire-slaying kit, complete with ...
Here's a potential Christmas present you could really get your teeth into. A Victorian 'vampire slaying kit' containing a wooden stake and Holy Water hidden inside a hollowed-out Bible is up for ...
A vampire-slaying kit that belonged to a 19th century English lord who kept guns, crucifixes, holy water, and a wooden stake in case of an attack, is going under the hammer. The creepy wooden box of ...
A vampire slaying kit from the 19th century has sold at auction for $15,517. The kit – which was sold on June 30 in an auction facilitated by U.K.-based Hansons Auctioneers – was originally estimated ...
Spooky season is here—but for some people, spooky season is a year-round affair. “In the absence of real artifacts, people made these kits that embody all the legends and things like silver bullets ...
LONDON — The Biden administration announced that Ukraine would receive $3 billion in military assistance — the largest amount it has sent since Russia began its invasion in February. The Department of ...
A vampire slaying kit from the 19th century has sold at auction for $15,517 (£13,000). The kit – which was sold on June 30 in an auction facilitated by U.K.-based Hansons Auctioneers – was originally ...