After confronting natural disasters and his own mortality, movie director Guillermo del Toro is auctioning part of his collection of monsters and fantasy objects that are frequently the subject of his gothic films.

A third of the director's collection of film mementos and artwork will be sold in a three-part auction.

Del Toro jokes visitors to his Bleak House in suburban Los Angeles won't be able to tell anything is missing.

Still, choosing what to part with was hard, he says

"I'm not just going to auction things without them hurting a little," del Toro said in an interview in Toronto, where he lives part time. His latest film "Frankenstein" screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this week.

Items for sale include concept sketches from his 1992 film Cronos, an original fig

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