Guillermo del Toro to auction horror treasures after triumph at Venice Film Festival

Published on 05/09/2025 - 8:14 GMT+2

Guillermo del Toro is auctioning disconnected portion of his immense scary and imagination collection, aft premiering his long-awaited Frankenstein astatine nan Venice Film Festival to wide acclaim.

The Oscar-winning, Mexican-born head has collaborated pinch Heritage Auctions for a three-part waste of items from his sprawling Bleak House archive, a brace of Santa Monica homes stuffed to nan brim pinch thousands of ghoulish props, sketches, comics and curiosities.

The first auction, featuring much than a 100 items, is group to footwear disconnected online connected 26 September, pinch further tons owed adjacent year.

Del Toro’s determination was spurred by nan wildfires that devastated Los Angeles earlier this year. With only hours to spare, he managed to prevention astir 120 of nan much than 5,000 items successful his collection.

Among nan highlights are 2 original drawings from Bernie Wrightson’s 1983 illustrated version of "Frankenstein". One shows nan animal hiding adjacent a stream, while nan different depicts Victor Frankenstein successful pursuit of his creation. They transportation starting bids of $200,000 and $100,000 respectively. Del Toro described Wrightson’s activity arsenic a masterpiece and admitted that parting pinch nan illustrations was “pretty brutal.”

Another item is an original pinup illustration by Mike Mignola for "Hellraiser #2", drawn successful nan precocious 1980s. Del Toro described nan piece, which has a starting bid of $40,000, arsenic “exceedingly hard” to get and said it was a precursor to Mignola’s creation of Hellboy, nan characteristic that he later brought to nan surface successful 2004.

The auction besides features much than a twelve pieces of pre-production creation from Pan’s Labyrinth, including an expansive conception sketch of nan mill compound by Raúl Monge, 1 of del Toro’s favourites.

Fans of Hellboy will besides find much than 40 pieces of memorabilia from nan films, including Ron Perlman’s leader jacket, which has a starting bid of $40,000, and Hellboy’s monolithic six-round shotgun, “Big Baby,” which originates astatine $50,000.