{"id":14678,"date":"2012-05-09T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14678"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T15:04:45","slug":"necromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14678","title":{"rendered":"Necromance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/domedbat-85x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bat Under Glass\" title=\"Bat Under Glass\" width=\"85\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Well this is just all kinds of neat.  Intrepid reader Fiend4Halloween pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necromance.com\/\">Necromance<\/a>, a store that&#8217;s a mixture of a biologist&#8217;s wunderkammer and your crazy aunt&#8217;s attic.<\/p>\n<p>They have some lovely stuff, quite reasonably priced, ranging from freeze-dried bats to black lace parasols.  They offer quite a variety of animal bits, including things like <a href=\"https:\/\/id3469.securedata.net\/necromance\/catalogue.php?category=entomology\">beetle elytra<\/a> (about halfway down the page) which are useful for art projects or jewelrymaking but are sometimes difficult to find.  (They unfortunately won&#8217;t ship natural items overseas due to customs restrictions, but they&#8217;ve also got plenty of reproduction stuff like skulls.)<\/p>\n<p>They also offer useful items like bell jars and taxidermy eyeballs, plus medical oddities like reproduction trephines and sets of animal X-rays; the X-rays in particular would look great framed and massed on a wall.  Their idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/id3469.securedata.net\/necromance\/catalogue.php?category=decor\">home decor<\/a> includes things like vintage skeleton keys and decorative tiles featuring anatomical drawings of hearts, so they&#8217;re definitely our kind of people.<\/p>\n<p>For those lucky enough to live in Southern California, they have a brick-and-mortar <a href=\"https:\/\/id3469.securedata.net\/necromance\/store_info.php\">location<\/a> on Melrose in LA.  From the looks of the store photos on their site, they have <em>loads<\/em> of other stuff that isn&#8217;t available online; it would be easy to spend hours&#8211;not to mention a hell of a lot of cash&#8211;poking around in their collection.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of very cool stuff; definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thanks, Fiend4Halloween!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is just all kinds of neat. Intrepid reader Fiend4Halloween pointed me to Necromance, a store that&#8217;s a mixture of a biologist&#8217;s wunderkammer and your crazy aunt&#8217;s attic. They have some lovely stuff, quite reasonably priced, ranging from freeze-dried bats to black lace parasols. They offer quite a variety of animal bits, including things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14678"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14710,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions\/14710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}