Bernard Hermann’s bonechilling score to Hitchcock’s classic movie Psycho was put up for auction today. Although quite a varied piece, the score is made especially famous, if not infamous by this point, for its use of shrieking violins to accentuate the tension and release in the climactic scene. It’s been spoofed, copied, replicated, and referenced by nearly every horror film maker, critic, and connoisseur known to the horror community. And now it has been put up for auction. The auction set the minimum reserve at £30,000, or approximately $44,000, as established by the auctioneer minimum evaluation. The guide price for the score was set somewhat higher. And after being introduced and put up for auction, the music was sent back home. Not because the family wanted it the most and bought it off some collector. That would be too dignified. No, the score was sent home. Simply because nobody wanted it, at least not for £30,000. Admittedly in a somewhat difficult economic climate, splashing out a small fortune for the score of a motion picture may not be a top priority, but considering this is the legendary original score that has garnered such incredible fame, it is a bit strange that it should be going back home unwanted and unloved. The Auction took place today in London at Bonhams, and the story was originally put out by Yahoo Movie News. Horror fans everywhere should feel a little sad that one of the most famous musical scores the genre has ever created seems to be of little worth at all. Instead of landing in the hands of a famous collector, the sheets now go to Hermann’s third wife. At least she knows how much it isn’t worth.