In Eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. This weekly group meditation—led by Eastern-Trained Meditation Teacher and End of Life Doula Bryan Melillo—is aimed towards helping reduce fear of death and preparing participants for end of life while also cultivating a community of like-minded people with whom to share this collective experience.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

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.

This lecture will explore the intricate interplay between mythology and kink, focusing on the symbolic and experiential resonance of the blade. By examining the mythological blade as a tool of transformation and transmutation, we will delve into its potent archetypal presence as both a weapon and a sacred instrument. From the swords of ancient myths to the sharp edges of intimate power exchange, the blade emerges as a conduit for profound psychological and emotional connection. This lecture will invite you to see mythology and kink not as disparate realms but as interconnected expressions of the human experience.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

In Eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. This weekly group meditation—led by Eastern-Trained Meditation Teacher and End of Life Doula Bryan Melillo—is aimed towards helping reduce fear of death and preparing participants for end of life while also cultivating a community of like-minded people with whom to share this collective experience.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

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.

Join us for a viewing of Orson Welles’ film noir debut The Stranger ( 1946), starring Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. The film traces the story of a war crimes investigator on search of a high-ranking Nazi fugitive in a Connecticut town, and was the first Hollywood film to include documentary footage of the Holocaust. After the screening, we will have a chance to discuss the film and share our responses.

Saint Valentine presides over romantic love. His feast day marks a day and night in which couples around the world exchange flowers, chocolates, and other tokens of affection. Facebook statistics suggest something else is brewing beneath the candle-lit dinners—something darker. The two weeks immediately before and after Valentine's Day record the highest changes in relationship status from "dating" to "single." This irony perhaps makes sense when we look at the original hagiography of this martyr from Ancient Rome, which has nothing to do with love. Tonight, discover how an obscure patron saint of epilepsy, beekeeping, and the plague became a Christian Cupid.

Join us for the launch of Leila Taylor’s new book, Sick Houses Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread! From family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles and the Unabomber’s cabin, houses often capture and contain the horror that has happened within them. Sick Houses crosses the threshold of these eerie spaces to explore how different types of architecture become vessels for terror and how these spaces, meant to shelter us, instead become the source of our deepest fears. Using film, television, and literature to explain why we are drawn to haunted and haunting places, Sick Houses is a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

In Eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. This weekly group meditation—led by Eastern-Trained Meditation Teacher and End of Life Doula Bryan Melillo—is aimed towards helping reduce fear of death and preparing participants for end of life while also cultivating a community of like-minded people with whom to share this collective experience.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

The Ancient Greek word “Mythos” refers to stories shared via an oral tradition. Like folklore, the value of mythos, or what we now call mythology, is that it can be changed, updated, and made relevant to current events, current ways of thinking, and the needs of the living moment. As we consider Valentine’s Day in the midst of women leaving dating apps in droves, the 4B movement in Korea, and the rise of loneliness among men, it seems like a great time to revisit the story of Psyche and Eros. In this lecture, we will explore the text of Psyche and Eros, and its position within Apuleius’s novel, The Golden Ass. The emotional truth of the story, and its continued usefulness in the modern world will be brought to light, and then we will discuss how we might reimagine the story in new ways.

Join Lauren Seeley—death care worker and death literacy advocate, as well as the facilitator for the Silent Book Club Of Death Brooklyn—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 author and occultist Melissa Madara for a look at the history and folklore of flying ointment, the e most feared and revered of magical concoctions in the folklore of medieval witchcraft. Made from a litany of transgressive ingredients—poisons, psychedelics, animal parts and human remains—this substance was believed to grant humans the power of supernatural flight, with which they could speak to spirits, wander unseen, and travel forth by night to meet the Devil.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

Join us for an evening of death-themed card and board games to get folks talking—and laughing! Whether you’re a competitive gamer or enjoy playing just for fun, this promises to be a lively gathering for connections and conversations. Co-hosted by Here to Honor and Death Doula Lauren Seeley.

In Eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. This weekly group meditation—led by Eastern-Trained Meditation Teacher and End of Life Doula Bryan Melillo—is aimed towards helping reduce fear of death and preparing participants for end of life while also cultivating a community of like-minded people with whom to share this collective experience.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

Tales of mortals seduced by ghosts or other shadowy spirits reflect the allure of forbidden love and the terrible grip of the past. From the "woman in white" of English folklore, who lures travelers to their doom, to the Greek eidolons made of cloud sent to seduce humans, from Japanese yūrei who return from death to enchant or avenge to the nightmare-riding succubus that ravished sleeping monks in the Middle Ages, the phantom lover symbolizes irresistible desire and existential threat, manifesting in altered states of consciousness and as the result of pathological grief or stifled passions. This talk will explore these spectral figures, and lead us to reflect on timeless anxieties about connection, memory, and the fragile line between the real and the unreal, the mental and the material.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

In Eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. This weekly group meditation—led by Eastern-Trained Meditation Teacher and End of Life Doula Bryan Melillo—is aimed towards helping reduce fear of death and preparing participants for end of life while also cultivating a community of like-minded people with whom to share this collective experience.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

Tonight, join Doug Skinner as he discusses—and plays!—music attributed to fairies, trolls, banshees, angels, aliens, spirits, time slips, dreams, the afterlife, and other unusual sources, as discussed in his new book Music From Elsewhere (Strange Attractor Press, 2024). He will also focus on reports that include actual music, and present possible explanations.

When Theseus enters the labyrinth to slay the Minotaur, Ariadne provides the thread that leads him back to daylight. For this, Theseus promises to marry smitten Ariadne and whisk her away to Athens. But midway through their journey, Ariadne is abandoned while slumbering on the beach. Waking to the sight of Theseus’ sails in the distance shocks and rends Ariadne into an outpouring of lament, a scene captured painstakingly across literature, art, and music. And yet, this lament is ultimately a song attracting the heart of Dionysos. Unlikely as it may seem for the god of uninhibited sexuality and transgression of norms, the marriage of Dionysos and Ariadne is the sole loyal union on Olympos. Then again, there is no one version of any myth. In this illustrated talk, we will look deeply at the devastation of heartbreak and the ecstatic arrival of true love as mythically entwined.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

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.

While the Bible contains clear prohibitions against the use of divination, witchcraft, and other forms of occult practices, the actual lived experience (and literature) of Judaism is replete with demons, witches, magic spells, and of course, golems. In this talk, Peter Bebergal will present a lively overview of Jewish magic and the supernatural from Biblical, Talmudic, and Midrashic sources, magical grimoires, and folktales to uncover a treasure trove of legends and stories, from the summoning of demons to build mighty temples to the folk magic of ordinary people.

A golem is a man of clay brought to life through the power of the written word. Of all the legends and stories of golems, perhaps the most famous is the story of Rabbi Loew and the Golem of Prague. Rabbi Loew—or so the story tells us—in Prague, during the reign of Rudolph II in the 16th century, used secret practices from the Kabbalah to bring a clay man to life to defend against anti-Semitic attacks. This story has resonated for generations and has been retold many times. What truths are there in this story, how did this Golem come to be? This talk will look into the mystical practices of Judaism that are at the heart of the legends, and how the story evolved through the 20th century. And perhaps, as well, see what we can learn from these tales in this time of robotics, drones, and artificial intelligence.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Danse Macabre and above levels; eligible members will receive a Zoom invitation in their Patreon inbox. Become a member HERE.

On this special evening, we invite our Supporter-level (and above) members to grab a drink and share their own (or listen to others’) mysterious encounters—be they ghost stories, uncanny synchronicities, or unusual happenings—with other members of the Morbid Anatomy community around the world.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

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.

Join us for a viewing of Mildred Pierce (1945), a classic film noir based on a novel by James M. Cain and starring Joan Crawford, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. James M. Cain wrote many popular and shocking books that were adapted into successful film noirs, and Albert Camus cited his work as an inspiration for his Stranger. After the screening, we will have a chance to discuss the film and share our responses.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

What makes a person want to learn to swallow a sword? And how is it possible? In this lecture (and live demonstration!), world-renowned sword swallower Dan Meyer and sideshow historian Marc Hartzman will discuss the mysterious and dangerous art of sword swallowing (yes, it’s entirely real!), the anatomy of it, and the remarkable history of sword swallowers from the early 1800s to the late 1900s.

The recorded voice is inherently spectral, the disembodied trace of a person detached from time and space and the evidence of the departed are usually auditory. So how do you capture the voices of the dead, how do you make permanent and physical something that is by nature incorporeal? What do ghosts sound like? From a haunted electronics lab in a 1972 BBC made for tv movie to the Gold Room at The Overlook Hotel; from a 19th century theory of “place memory” to Discovery channel ghost hunters, this talk, by Leila Taylor—author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread—explores the spectral sonic and our desire to document the voices of the dead.

The scientific community has always been disdainful of accounts of the paranormal, but there was a moment when science discovered a kaleidoscope of invisible forces, waves, and particles underneath a now thinner veil of reality. In this brief window of opportunity, Duke University opened the Parapsychology Laboratory. In his time, J. B. Rhine, its founder, was the Einstein of the paranormal, who wished to scientifically demonstrate that life and all the feelings that go with it survive death. When Stacy Horn visited North Carolina to research the lab's work, she knew that no one has definitely proven that there is life after death, but Rhine and his colleagues conducted lots of experiments over the years. What if one of them worked? What she discovered, among many other things, is that one of them did. This talk will tell the story of this fascinating lab, its experiments and its findings.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon Members at the $10/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 and Executive Director Megan Fitzpatrick. 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.

Join us for a very special evening at a private estate filled with exotic taxidermied—and live!—animals in upstate New York! Natural history enthusiast and author Josh Powe will welcome us into his private taxidermy collection, believed to be the largest of its kind in the United States, and filled with thousands of antique specimens including extinct and unusual animals, Victorian anthropomorphic dioramas and pets, and "freak" domestic animals. The night will culminate with a decadent Roman-inspired feast centered on exotic game (with vegetarian options for the less carnivorous) along with plentiful libation and entertainment, followed by a rousing game of “zoo-lette” (taxidermy roulette) where you will have a chance to go home with pieces from our host’s collection. A lucky few will stay for an after-party sleepover, followed by a champagne brunch and a tour of an unnamed “mystery collection” the following day.

All proceeds support Morbid Anatomy’s mission and our transition to a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution, and tickets and donations over $1,000 are tax deductible.