Citizen Brooklyn

You don’t have to take a dip in the Gowanus Canal to see some freaky mutant creatures on April 6.

Just a few blocks away, geeky event series the Secret Science Club will be hosting its annual “Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest” at the Bell House. Devotees of the macabre can show off their finest stuffed beasts, weird skeletons, and just about anything else that is dead and preserved. The evening is part art show, part storytelling competition, with contestants expected to spin tall and true tales about their beast’s backstory in an effort to win prizes.

“It’s a glorified show-and-tell,” said judge Robert Marbury.

This is the seventh year the club has put on the event, and previous entries have included both the adorable and the abominable. One piece showed two kittens fighting over a ball of yarn another was a chandelier made of goat heads, Marbury said.

Even the organizers don’t know exactly what to expect from this year’s batch.

“I sort of think I’ve seen everything, but then clearly I have not,” said co-host Margaret Mittelbach.

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