Allis Markham, Hollywood Taxidermy's Rising Star

Allis Markham has two dead cats in her freezer. There’s also a frozen peacock, an Arctic fox pup, four raccoons, four grapefruit-size bull scrotums, and several fluffy ducklings sealed in a Ziploc bag. “I’m looking to get a camel and an ostrich,” Markham says during an April visit to her studio in downtown Los Angeles. “I’ve been calling ostrich farms, petting zoos, camel ride places.” She adds, “It’s hard not to creep people out.”