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Line 53: * [[The Dresden Files\|Harry Dresden]] has a collection of vampire fangs. And not the hinged plastic kind. ** Other odd spell ingredients he used to keep on hand include sunshine wrapped up in a handkerchief, mainly for use on vampires. And in the latest book, he has to remove stuff from his apartment in a hurry that the FBI might be interested in. The list of stuff he's bundling up includes two swords (one of which the police would call a murder weapon in a local case), depleted uranium and a human skull. * According to ''[[~~Discworld/Making Money\|~~Making Money]]'' Lord Vetinari has, somewhere in the palace, the death masks of most of his predecessors as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork (those whose bodies were in any state to have a death mask made, of course). When asked if he finds it creepy to have them all looking down on him, he replies that generally ''he'' looks down on ''them'' because they were fat, greedy, corrupt and incompetent, and he's [[Magnificent Bastard\|awesome]]. * The Collector is a series regular in the ''[[Nightside]]'' novels, a compulsive hoarder who seeks out just about anything exotic, unique, or historically significant, then stashes it in various super-secret locations (on the Moon, inside a live tyrannosaur's cage, etc). As one of the things he maintains a collection of is ''time machines'', many of the historical artifacts he's picked up were taken directly from their periods of origin. * A lot of [[H.P. Lovecraft]] protagonists collect curiosities, stories of the unusual, or similarly grisly things. Of course, ''none'' of them are ready for [[Eldritch Abomination\|what]] [[Cannibal Clan\|they might]] [[Ultimate Evil\|encounter]] in-story. * Orfeo Culzean, [[The Chessmaster]] for hire from ''[[Ravenor]]'' collects deodands - random, innocuous items that have caused people's deaths. * To judge by his complaints after being bathed by children in ''[[~~Discworld/~~Men ~~At Arms\|Men At~~at Arms]]'', Gaspode the Wonder Dog collects fleas. Not just any old fleas, mind: he'd been trying for the complete set. * In ''[[Good Omens]]'', the angel Aziraphale collects books of prophecy and "infamous Bibles", antique Bibles with amusing misprints such as the Unrighteous Bible, the Wicked Bible, and the Bugger Alle Thys Bible. ** It should be noted that apart from the Bugger Alle Thys Bible, all the misprinted Bible editions in Aziraphale's collection [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_errata really do exist] in [[Real Life]] Line 80: * Gonzo on [[The Muppet Show]] kept a mildew collection. * This is the premise of ''[[Oddities]]'' produced by Discovery. * ''[[Home Improvement]]''; Wilson has a lot of odd things in his house, mostly antiques from a variety of old foreign cultures. == [[Music]] ==