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Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker behind the Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, is opening up his ‘Cabinet Of Curiosities’ for Netflix.

Straight from his 2013 memoir titled Guillermo Del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions, the streamer is welcoming a new anthology series with all the monster maestro’s most horrific musings.

Viewers will be allowed to step inside Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities when the first two episodes debut on October 25, followed by two episodes released over the next three nights.

There’s a bit of each episode seen throughout the trailer, with titles including ‘Lot 36′, ‘Dreams in the Witch House’, and ‘Graveyard Rats‘, each billed with a top cast.

That includes performances from the likes of F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), and Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), among others with a knack for horror.

The upcoming mini-anthology series is perfectly timed to herald Halloween in:

With a whole host of people working on this project, Collider reckons it will stick with you long after watching:

We’ll have a tale directed by The Babadook’s Jennifer Kent as well as another helmed by The Empty Man’s David Prior and yet another by Firestarter’s Keith Thomas. There will be stories originally written by H.P. Lovecraft with screenplays penned by Mandy co-writers Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn, and The Dark Knight scribe, David S. Goyer.

The official synopsis says the series is genre-defining and enough to challenge our traditional notions of horror.

Regardless, I am not sure I dare to look inside the mind of one of our generation’s greatest horror masters.

I am cool to keep my fears locked up, thanks.

[source:collider]