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Join Morbid Anatomy and the New York City chapter of the Silent Book Club of Death for an afternoon of reading and contemplating mortality in the galleries of The Met Cloisters facilitated by death care worker and death literacy advocate Lauren Seeley. The program will begin with silent reading followed by a game of The Death Deck and open discussion among participants. Books will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own.

Free with Museum admission. Please note: Space is limited; advance registration is required. Registration closes Saturday, February 21, 2026, or when registration is full. 

When most people think of Transylvania, they imagine Dracula — a gloomy castle, a pale count, and a story of terror that has haunted Western culture for over a century. But what if this famous myth was never just about vampires? What if it was a clever disguise that helped erase an entire civilization’s sacred heritage? Join medical art psychotherapist & artist Isabelle Rizo to hear about her investigation into how the legend of Dracula became intertwined with Transylvania’s identity — and how this association has obscured a much older and far more astonishing truth. Her research traces the region’s cultural roots back to the Neolithic era, when Transylvania was home to some of Europe’s earliest matriarchal societies.

As we cross the threshold from the Year of the Wood Snake into the Year of the Fire Horse, we move from subtle shedding into visible momentum, from quiet wisdom into embodied force. This one-night lecture and ritual workshop with mythologist Selena Madden explores the mythic, elemental, and psychological symbolism of this rare transition through Chinese cosmology, comparative mythology, and archetypal psychology. This gathering blends scholarly context, guided reflection, and gentle ritual practice—offering participants a grounded, meaningful way to mark the Lunar New Year as a true threshold of transformation.

Reiki is most often translated as universal energy, the essential quality that makes something alive. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates conditions for healing and nourishment, and allows us to engage with questions surrounding life, death, and what lies beyond. This online monthly group provides a therapeutic application of Reiki for moving through grief and loss. Mikella draws upon her 15+ years of grief counseling experience to introduce a theme for each group related to various tasks or stages of the grieving process.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

The Book of Revelation—St. John’s mystic vision from the island of Patmos—has inspired some of the most awe-inspiring and terrifying works in European Medieval and Renaissance art. From jewel-studded visions of the Heavenly Jerusalem to the monstrous maws of Hell, artists brought the Apocalypse to life with astonishing detail. Join art historian Brenda Edgar for a lavishly illustrated talk exploring how painters and sculptors visualized divine judgment, celestial glory, and demonic chaos. You’ll never see locusts the same way again.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

Hauntings don’t always involve rattling chains or Victorian attics. The ghosts that follow us are often quieter—and far more intimate. For those of us in our 40s, 50s, and 60s, they tend to show up as regrets, old identities we’ve outgrown, versions of ourselves we never inhabited, and the unresolved stories we inherited from the families who shaped us. Join Scott Bryson, PhD for a lecture that reframes ghosts as psychological companions—messengers from the margins of the self.

Raise a glass of wine, steady your hand, and render what the shadows suggest! Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library for an evening Drink & Draw where we ponder still life assemblages in the spirit of Memento Mori, guided by artist and fabricator Sev Gedra. Paper and basic drawing tools will be provided on site and no prior experience is required. Sketches will take place in timed rounds building from 30 seconds to 20 minutes. We will offer brief prompts and small demonstrations; the rest is quiet industry and good company, as the Victorians would have wished.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Losing a beloved pet or person is incredibly difficult. We can keep them close through veneration, in which we tell their stories, listen to their favorite songs, or create art in their honor. We can also create memorial dioramas—small altars or shrines to memorialize our beloveds and their lives, so that they can be gone but not forgotten. In this daylong workshop, we will—with guidance and support from death doula Lauren Seeley—create our own memorial dioramas for a dead loved one. We will also learn about the importance of memorializing, honoring those who have gone, and creating in our grief, as well as the history of altars, shrines, and preservation both in public and private spaces.

At Death Cafe people gather to "eat cake, drink tea and discuss death." For this free online event, join death midwife Lisa Cox on Zoom with a snack and beverage in hand, along with questions or stories and a thoughtful ear. There is no agenda, except as arises among those in attendance. Death Cafe is a worldwide non-profit movement to allow non-judgmental space for people to talk about death, online or in person.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library on March 15 for an informal tarot salon, where we will interpret and discuss the cards as we alchemize dark times. Tarot offers a way to reclaim agency and find relief and balance the flow of information. Bring your own deck, or use one of the display decks from our tarot shop. This free event is open to curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and anyone who simply wants to learn more about tarot through shared exploration.

Why so serious? From gallows humor to the joy of celebrating a life well-lived, Becky Robison—author of the new book My Parents Are Dead: What Now? A Panic-Free Guide to the Practicalities of Death—will offer fun, silly, and passionate pathways into the inevitability of death and dying to make necessary preparations less intimidating.

Free to members of the Morbid Anatomy Patreon at Joanna’s Psychopomp level, Oracle Level and above. Become a member here.

For centuries, artists and makers have sought to reach beyond the everyday in order to create in communion with the depths of the unconscious, the divine, and the dead. Join Tiffany Hopkins, author of Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To The Dead, for a seasonal art-making circle that begins with meditation to shift us into a receptive state. We’ll then create in our chosen mediums, and close each session with the opportunity for participants to share outcomes, experiences, and observations.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

This Spring Equinox, join us for a special event designed to cultivate community and plant the seeds of intention through meditations, poetry, and a creative project. Using the myth of Persephone and her return from the underworld as our guide, we will begin with a grounding meditation exploring the relationship between death and new growth. We will meet Hecate—the goddess of magic, witchcraft, and crossroads—who guides Persephone between the realms of the dead and the living. We will be introduced to Persephone’s mother Demeter and her jovial guest Baubo, whose jokes will usher in the springtime’s flowering. Finally, we will learn along with Triptolemus—patron of agriculture—to plant seeds and prepare for the seasons.  

Author Andrea Janes joins us at the library for a reading from her book A Haunted History of Invisible Women. From the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious mansion this offbeat, insightful book explores the history behind America's female ghosts, the stereotypes, myths, and paranormal tales that swirl around them, what their stories reveal about us—and why they haunt us .

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Hope to see you at this free, informal, online monthly meetup devoted to open and non-judgemental conversations about death with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

Author and photographer Bryan Sansivero invites audiences into the rarely seen interiors of forgotten places—and into the myths, risks, and ethical complexities surrounding urban exploration (urbex). Drawing directly from his new book, America the Abandoned, Sansivero shares stories about his travels, how he obtained the pictures of abandoned sites, and the history behind the homes.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join Lauren Seeley—death care worker and death literacy advocate, as well as the facilitator for the Silent Book Club Of Death NYC Chapter—at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Library for a night in which we read silently about death/grief/mortality followed by a game of The Death Deck. Following, there will be an open discussion and reflection where guests will have the opportunity to share their findings and feelings about mortality. Refreshments will be included.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

The Psychopomp Salon is a thematic presentation/meetup that will explore—via images, words, and group discussion—areas of our founder Joanna Ebenstein's research and travels. This month, we’ll focus on El Tío, a folk deity found in the mines of Bolivia who can either grant you unimaginable wealth or destroy you. Ebenstein will share never before shown photos form her travels, and introduce you to the rich and violent history behind these figure, revolving around a mountain that produced enough silver to form a bridge between Bolivia and Seville, and killed enough men to to create the same bridge in bones.

Join author Felix Taylor as he speaks on the history of occultism through the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Founded in London in the 1880s by Freemasons, it was the world’s most famous secret society and counted eminent writers, actors, and visual artists among its ranks, from Aleister Crowley to W. B. Yeats. It envisioned a “golden age” of spiritual enlightenment, with progressive ideals, and its occult practices came to shape members’ work and influence the wider culture over a much longer period.  With its influence on Wicca and modern magic, The Golden Dawn is a vital thread connecting Victorian esotericism to the present-day occult revival.

Today we live in a moment in which the Apocalypse is frequently invoked. But it is not enough to invoke it: it is necessary to re-narrate it. To return to these visions and linger on their images, imagining possible futures. In this talk, art historian María Pandiello—author of the new book Apocalypse: Revelations, Fears, and Possible Futures—will propose the liminal experience of the Apocalypse as a space of collective construction and as a response to catastrophism. She will follow historical figures in their relationship to apocalyptic thought: pseudo-prophets, messiahs, monstrosities, and tides of social change.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

Before the printing press, every book was made by hand—often on parchment crafted from animal skin. In this richly illustrated talk with art historian Brenda Edgar, we’ll explore medieval illuminated manuscripts as both sacred texts and physical objects, tracing how quirks of flesh, hair, and even belly buttons shaped the page itself. From shimmering decoration to theological meaning, join us for a journey into the luminous, otherworldly beauty of the handmade book.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

In this one hour preview of the upcoming six-class Morbid Anatomy course, filmmaker and author Chris Alexander will give an energetic, edifying overview of maverick Canadian director David Cronenberg's entire oeuvre, from his early days of sexually deviant parasitic plagues, phallic armpit vampires, television-induced terror and Kafka-esque mutations through his more dramatic and psychologically shocking thrillers right up to his most recent, painfully personal work. Get a taste of the instructor's style and explore the foundations of one of world cinema's most daring and singular auteurs.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon Members at the Danse Macabre ($10/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will get an invitation in their Patreon inbox. Become a member here.

We hope you’ll join us for a Morbid Anatomy Show and Tell cocktail party! Get a rare peek at the private collections of Founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein. We also invite you to share an object or artifact of your own, while meeting and enjoying a virtual cocktail with others in the Morbid Anatomy Community.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Author Jamie L. Brummitt visits the library for a reading and discussion of her book Protestant Relics in Early America. From postmortem images to locks of hair, this book explores how Americans have inspected corpses for signs of the supernatural and collected relics to feel the souls of their dead loved ones in heaven.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

In times of uncertainty and calamity, the danse macabre, or dance of death, has resurrected in art again and again over the past centuries. It dates back to the 15th century in Europe, with images of people dancing with skeletons or cadavers draped with fetid flesh depicted in murals and woodcuts. This talk will focus on how the dance of death has been reinterpreted by artists, particularly printmakers who dispersed it across the globe, drawing on arts writer Allison C. Meier's extensive research into the subject.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

Frederika Hauffe—the "Seeress of Prevorst"—was a German mystic, medium, and channeler of the early 19th century who had a great impact on thinkers, writers and healers of her time. Her story inspired many "spiritualists," including Madame Blavatsky (founder of Theosophy) and (prophet and clairvoyant Andrew Jackson Davis. Pioneering psychologist Carl Jung wrote about Hauffe in a series of lectures, and even used her as inspiration for some of his writings. In this lecture, Cleveland will discuss Hauffe's unusual healing abilities and self-invented systems of communication, including channeled automatic drawings and writings. She will also share her own artistic explorations, relating to Hauffe, part of a series of artistic reflections about Cleveland’s own line of German female ancestors, of which Hauffe is a distant part.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

In the 1920s, archaeologists uncovered over 1,000 ancient Sumerian graves in Ur, southern Iraq—including royal tombs filled with gold, musical instruments, and the remains of attendants who died in ritual sacrifice. In this richly illustrated lecture with art historian Brenda Edgar, we’ll explore what these grave goods and burial practices reveal about the beliefs of the world’s first civilizations. From the deadly rites of Sumer to the jewel-filled tombs of Assyrian queens, join us for a journey into the ancient rituals of death, royalty, and the afterlife.

For centuries, artists and makers have sought to reach beyond the everyday in order to create in communion with the depths of the unconscious, the divine, and the dead. Join Tiffany Hopkins, author of Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To The Dead, for a seasonal art-making circle that begins with meditation to shift us into a receptive state. We’ll then create in our chosen mediums, and close each session with the opportunity for participants to share outcomes, experiences, and observations.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

The Psychopomp Salon is a thematic presentation/meetup that will explore—via images, words, and group discussion—areas of our founder Joanna Ebenstein's research and travels. This month, we’ll focus on Ebenstein and her husband Bryan Melillo’s recent trip to India, and especially her month spent in Varanasi—one of the oldest cities on earth and the center for death rituals in that country.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

Only about 25 works survive by the late Flemish master Hieronymus Bosch, but their surreal visions have captivated viewers for centuries. In this enchantingly illustrated talk with art historian Brenda Edgar, we’ll explore Bosch’s fantastical depictions of Earth, Heaven, and Hell—where giant strawberries, pearl-laying bodies, and dreamlike landscapes collide. We’ll also trace his influence on later artists, from the Renaissance to the Surrealists, including Magritte and Dalí, who saw in Bosch a visionary ahead of his time.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

This online workshop will lead attendees to design their own personal solstice ritual that they can manifest on Midsummer night or the following day. Building on rituals created for the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, this session will help you use myth and metaphor to mark the turning of the year. Throughout, we will take inspiration from stories such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the tale of the Holly King and the Oak King, The Green Knight, and several Trickster stories about stealing the Sun.

Free to members of the Morbid Anatomy Patreon at Joanna’s Psychopomp level, Oracle Level and above. Become a member here.

For centuries, artists and makers have sought to reach beyond the everyday in order to create in communion with the depths of the unconscious, the divine, and the dead. Join Tiffany Hopkins, author of Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To The Dead, for a seasonal art-making circle that begins with meditation to shift us into a receptive state. We’ll then create in our chosen mediums, and close each session with the opportunity for participants to share outcomes, experiences, and observations.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses an extensive collection of image-heavy books exploring  death in art and culture, anatomical art, Latin American art and culture, collectors and collecting, sexology, the uncanny, decadence, horror and atrocity, the gothic, circus and sideshow, and the occult. You will also find an idiosyncratic collection of art, artifacts and curiosities from around the world and a gift shop filled with strange, rare and wonderful objects including signed and vintage books, obscure tarot decks, antique Mexican retablos, and magical and devotional objects from around the world.

Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library to read some or our many books, marvel at our collection of curiosities, and peruse our gift shop. Today, we also invite you to take part in an informal tarot salon during opening hours, in which we’ll share, enjoy, and discuss readings and interpretations in a friendly and non-competitive atmosphere. This free event is for curious fans, enthusiasts, dedicated scholars, and for those who just want to learn more about tarot from other tarot enthusiasts. Bring your own deck or use the display decks from our tarot shop.

Across the ancient world, cultures independently constructed monumental, pyramidal, and vertically oriented structures—ziggurats, stepped temples, mounds, and artificial mountains that continue to dominate their landscapes thousands of years later. Why did humans everywhere feel compelled to build up? Join Art Historian Brenda Edgar as she uncovers these these structures not only as tombs, temples, or symbols of power, but as monumental expressions of a pan-human capacity for altered states of consciousness.

In fifteenth-century Flemish painting, some of the most important moments in Christian history take place not in churches but in bedrooms. This lecture with Art Historian Brenda Edgars examines the late medieval bedchamber as a charged visual site where theology, domestic life, and embodied experience collide. By reading Annunciation scenes alongside secular interior paintings, we will explore how artists navigated the uncomfortable implications of the Incarnation.

For centuries, artists and makers have sought to reach beyond the everyday in order to create in communion with the depths of the unconscious, the divine, and the dead. Join Tiffany Hopkins, author of Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To The Dead, for a seasonal art-making circle that begins with meditation to shift us into a receptive state. We’ll then create in our chosen mediums, and close each session with the opportunity for participants to share outcomes, experiences, and observations.

Before the rise of modern medicine, disease was experienced as physical, spiritual, moral, and social all at once—and healing required more than physical treatment. Across medieval and early modern Europe, this worldview produced a vast and remarkably specific system of healing saints, each invoked against particular ailments: diseases of the eyes, childbirth, plague, cancer, and countless other bodily threats. Drawing on art history, religious practice, and the history of medicine, join Art Historian Brenda Edgar to explore how saints became specialists, why particular illnesses were paired with particular bodies.

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For centuries, artists and makers have sought to reach beyond the everyday in order to create in communion with the depths of the unconscious, the divine, and the dead. Join Tiffany Hopkins, author of Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To The Dead, for a seasonal art-making circle that begins with meditation to shift us into a receptive state. We’ll then create in our chosen mediums, and close each session with the opportunity for participants to share outcomes, experiences, and observations.

Gargoyles and grotesques occupy one of the most unsettling positions in the history of art and architecture. Emerging in the Gothic cathedrals of medieval Europe, these distorted and often monstrous figures were not merely decorative. True gargoyles served a functional purpose, channeling rainwater away from stone walls, while their purely sculptural relatives—the grotesques—were designed to confront viewers with fear, excess, and bodily instability. This talk will trace the afterlives of the gargoyle and grotesque in modern architecture, including their revival in nineteenth-century restorations and their surprising persistence in twentieth-century skyscrapers such as New York’s Chrysler Building.

Across history, some of the most ambitious monuments to death were never meant to be built—or never could be built. Designed on paper at impossible scales, these visionary tombs reveal how artists and architects grappled with mortality, memory, and the limits of civilization itself. This lecture will explore a series of unrealized funerary projects from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when architects pushed monumentality to its conceptual extreme.

For centuries, artists and makers have sought to reach beyond the everyday in order to create in communion with the depths of the unconscious, the divine, and the dead. Join Tiffany Hopkins, author of Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To The Dead, for a seasonal art-making circle that begins with meditation to shift us into a receptive state. We’ll then create in our chosen mediums, and close each session with the opportunity for participants to share outcomes, experiences, and observations.

From ancient Egypt to modern astronomy, the Sun and Moon have been more than just celestial bodies — they’ve been living gods and goddesses. This lecture will explore the history of solar, lunar, and planetary deities, and the complex roles they played in shaping human understanding of the cosmos, body, and gender. We’ll focus on the patterns and anomalies in the way deities are depicted from the rigid, masculine sun-gods of Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the mysterious moon deities in Greco-Roman and indigenous traditions.