The Odd Art Collective has come up with a heart-stoppingly original way to store your pens and brushes while you’re wait- ing for the muse to attack, and whose atria wouldn’t be warmed by a pencil holder shaped like the body’s most im- portant organ? Get stabbed in the art at neatoshop.com.
FIGURINE $285
SKELETON COUPLE
Show everyone that when you promise “’til death do us part” you mean it and then some. This happy, albeit skeletal, ceramic couple works perfectly as either a cake topper or wedding centrepiece. Each order is customizable and unique, in case you want to showcase your, ahem, inner self on the big day. Get your bone china at skellramics.com.
RIP RIDER SKATEBOARD $129.95
This classic toe-pincher-
shaped deck from Creature is fully fit- ted with wheels and trucks, and comes in a coffin-shaped box. Just don’t let its mortal design psych you out of your next Godzilla Railflip. Grind a grave- stone at daddiesboardshop.com.
PUTRESCENCE MULTI-PURPOSE POMADE
$12.45 Weary of pomades that never lasted ’til the witching hour, the quiffed creeps at Grave Robbers Union formulated their own deadly compound, squished it into three-ounce tins and discovered it also soothes cracked skin and makes an al- luring fragrance. Put a dollop in your devil ’do at trioxin245.com.
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MONSTERS: THREE FAMOUS SPINE-TINGLING TALES Published during the height of the ’60s monster
craze, this 48-page illustrated storybook features exciting, abridged adaptations of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and was an ideal way to introduce young- sters to the works of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Charming and colour-
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ful ’60s-era artwork by famed comic book illustra- tor Tony Tallarico, coupled with lively, faithful adap- tations by Walter Gibson make this a great item for classic monster fans. Copies are relatively easy to come by on eBay for $10 or less. JAMES BURRELL