VENRICK & POE'S HALLOWEEN HIT PARADE NO. 1 - THE CABINET OF ODDITIES

 

EPISODE 1 - CABINET OF ODDITIES

On the first episode of The Doobie's Halloween Miniseries, Alumni & Community Outreach Director Adam Venrick and Station Manager Josh Poe set up an interview with Denison Librarian and scary things expert Kent Huffman. They tour Kent's "Cabinet of Oddities," browse through several Ohioan urban legends, talk about shock rock, goth rock and Tom Waits and the horror of medicine as theatre.


For more discussion of all things scary, tune in to Venrick & Poe's Halloween Hit Parade on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 5PM, through October. 

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Photos of Kent's collection are shown below.



Phrenology Bust

Life Mask of Vincent Price

Oni Mask

Kent's Pacific Island Siding


Various items including a palmistry hand.

Diaphonized Frog

Octopus Arm

Fossilized Brain Coral

Shark Jaws

Stag Beetle

Skeletal Version of Rodin's The Thinker

Death's Head Moth

Various Beetle Specimens 


Six Fingered Hand

Room Key from The Shining


Metamorphosis Miniature

Van Gogh's Skull of a Skeleton Smoking Cigarette

Oni Mask and Poisons

Various Poisons

Skull Planter


Mrs. Deeds, the "Lady in Red"


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