My earliest memory of this one-of-a-kind store in Soho was seeing a prehistoric bear skeleton in it’s window on a double decker tour of Manhatten. I was only a child, but a wave of anxiety passed over me when the bus drove by. We had to stop and go in! What can I say, I’ve always had a flair for the macabre. Shockingly enough, my obsession with cults and the paranormal preceded my love for fashion by half a decade. Calling myself a bizarre child would’ve been an understatement.
This is the store:
They carry fake brain-in-a-jar candles, replicas of the “Lucy” skull, petrified wood bookends, 22kt gold pieces in a vial, meteorites and real human fetal skulls! What more can I ever ask for? It’s like someone cut-and-pasted Evolution from the set of Harry Potter (Professor Snape not included.)
I was fortunate to rediscover the store when I was flipping through the pages of Encyclopedia Horrifica, one of my favourite books of all time. I brought it several years ago, but only renewed my fascination with it while I was cleaning my room. Look on page 76 and 77:
And the most awesome piece of all found on Evolution:
A pewter bone bracelet that “depicts four human bones welded together, creating a cuff around the wearer’s wrist”…which reminds me of:
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