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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

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.

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

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.

FREE! Learn more and RSVP HERE

Shining the light on our scarcity of time helps us get clear about what matters. You might have more than 2,000 starts to your week left until your life calls it quits or only 20 to go. How do you want most of those Mondays to be? Life’s far too short to feel anything less than astonishingly alive. While we can’t control how long we live, we can control how well we live. How do you want your thousands or hundreds or dozens of Mondays to feel? How can you make that happen, without another week down the drain? In this interactive session rooted in the science of positive psychology, we’ll talk about how we can be more mindful about living and working like we mean it … without a Monday to spare. Reflect on what it would take to feel “astonishingly alive,” and map out a game plan to live that version of your life. Leave motivated and ready to fully engage with life!

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.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

Join Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson for an in-depth look at the film Orgy of the Dead (1965), written by supreme American auteur Ed Wood Jr. What seems on the surface to be yet another Wood sleaze-fest with zombie strippers and movie monsters contains considerably more than meets reptile brain and eye at first sight. Carl will unearth hidden meanings and relevances – perhaps specifically from a perspective of Carl Jung’s concept of the ”collective unconscious”… Can films like this really save the world? And… do you have what it takes to enjoy the sexual antics of these nocturnal creatures in a cemetery cloaked in stage smoke and diabolical double entendres?

Learn more and RSVP HERE

Since time immemorial, people have written, sung, and shared songs about sudden death and devastating loss. In the past, such songs were shared by written or oral tradition and adapted by performers over time into complex genealogies. More recently, tragic ballads have been disseminated on record and radio. This talk—based on the speaker’s book Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark & Bloody Record—will share how such ballads documented tales of homicide, crime sprees, madness, illness, addiction, and war, and look at everything from ancient child ballads to modern variants by Johnny Cash, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, Van Morrison, and the Mekons. It will examine these songs in a way that's equal parts musicological, psychosocial, and genealogical in a deep dive into the human need to document the horrors of the world around us and their impact on our sense of mortality.

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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

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.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

Join artist and author Corinne May Botz as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of her best-selling book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a collection of eighteen miniature crime scene models and the woman who constructed them, progressive criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878 – 1962). Built in the 1940's and 50's after actual homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths, the dioramas were created to train police officers to assess visual evidence. They display an astounding level of precision and detail: shades can be raised and lowered, mice live in the walls, stereoscopes work, whistles blow and pencils write. In addition to creating hundreds of photographs of the models, Botz spent years researching and writing about Lee, drawing on archival research as well as interviews with Lee's family and police colleagues. Tonight, Botz will discuss the fascinating life of Frances Glessner Lee, and take you on a photographic journey of the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death."

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 live video interview and Q and A, hosted by Morbid Anatomy founder and creative director Joanna Ebenstein, where we welcome special guest Corinne Botz, the artist behind the legendary book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, filled with enchanting images and words exploring the miniature dollhouse murder scenes created by Frances Glessner Lee in the mid 20th century. Created to train homicide investigators to ​“convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell,” they depict true crimes and and still used in forensic training today. Guests will be invited to ask questions and join the conversation.

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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

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.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

The Krampus, a folkloric devil associated with St. Nicholas in Alpine Austria and Germany, has lately been embraced outside his homeland as a sort of icon of a countercultural Christmas. Tonight, join Al Ridenour—author of The Krampus and the Old Dark Christmas—as we explore the history of this fascinating figure, and role his roots in the old Alpine Christmas, a season haunted by ghosts, witches, devilish horsemen, and even murderous incarnations of Catholic saints. Over the course of this richly illustrated talk, Ridenour will walk us through the folklore in a whirlwind presentation employing archival film footage, contemporary clips, and over 100 images, some rarely seen.

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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

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.

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

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! Learn more and RSVP HERE

Obsessions, addictions, mental illness and violent behaviors: what if they could be caused by the parasitical attachments of earthbound spirits? In the early 20th century, two physicians explored this idea, and combined approaches from spiritualism, psychoanalysis and electrotherapy into clinical techniques for “de-possession.” In this illustrated talk, psychiatrist J.W. Dotson MD will outline the protocols used by the New York neurologist and psychical researcher, Dr. Titus Bull, and share psychiatric case files from Dr. Carl Wickland’s 1924 book Thirty Years Among the Dead.

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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

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.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

All of America is a haunted place, but the ghosts of the Pacific Northwest have a special resonance — one that draws on the moody climate and rugged history of the region. Whether told around the bar or the campfire, the ghost stories of Washington state and Oregon reflect an economy built around rough, resource extraction industries such as mining and logging, not to mention the sex work that often accompanied it. Some stories go back even farther, reflecting the Indigenous history of the land or encounters between Native Americans and settlers. Many of these stories are actually love stories, capturing the devotion expressed by people who built businesses, families, and communities in the region—and who apparently never wanted to leave. This illustrated talk with bestselling author Bess Lovejoy will cover some of the most notable ghost stories from around the Northwest.

FREE | Mérida English Language Library | Mérida, Mexico | 7 pm Local Time | More here.

Join us for a free book talk to celebrate the release of Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, a new book by Mérida resident Joanna Ebenstein that provides a 12-week program aimed at helping readers befriend death. Filled with lessons learned across cultures and with the help of insightful prompts and questions, the reader will come away with greater clarity on what death means to them, how to live alongside it without fear, and what, to them, makes life worth living. As our ancestors knew so well, there’s no better motivation to seize the day than a regular reminder that your days are numbered.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

FREE! Learn more and RSVP HERE

Join professor of death, technology, and religion Jamie L. Brummitt for a richly illustrated talk about the ways early Americans mourned the death of George Washington by visiting his grave at Mount Vernon and collecting his locks of hair, coffin fragments, and handwriting, all in the hopes of communicating with his heavenly soul. In early America, Washington’s relics functioned as religious and political objects. Many people assumed Washington’s relics had the supernatural power to transform the minds, bodies, souls, of Americans into virtuous and patriotic citizens. Through these religious and political mourning practices, Mount Vernon became the sacred center of the early American republic, even as these relic practices became entangled in debates over slavery.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

Jack the Ripper is often called the world’s most notorious unidentified killer, but he was not the first modern serial killer on the streets of London. Before him was another murderer who hunted from the River Thames – one arguably more sadistic and mercurial. The Thames Torso Killer has always lurked in the Ripper’s shadow, despite the fact he murdered and dismembered at least four women over two years in an overlapping period of time. He deposited his victims’ body parts at diverse locations including the tidal River Thames, and his crimes were named after the places where the torsos or first body parts were found: Rainham in Essex, Whitehall, Battersea and Pinchin Street in Whitechapel. In this talk, Sarah Bax Horton—author of Arm of Eve: Investigating the Thames Torso Murders—describes her investigation and use of modern criminal profiling to come up with her own suspect: river worker James Crick.

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 live video interview and Q and A, hosted by Morbid Anatomy founder and creative director Joanna Ebenstein, where we welcome special guest Lisa Pahl, Hospice and Emergency Medicine Social Worker and co-creator of The Death Deck. We will discuss, among other things, how her work with the dying led to her creation of The Death Deck, a game that encourages players you tap into stories and ideas about death with friends and family. Guests will be invited to ask questions and join the conversation.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

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.

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

FREE! Learn more and RSVP HERE

COVID-19 fundamentally transformed Americans’ understandings of the relationship between death, spirituality, religious community, and trauma. The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hospitals and never seen again. Social distancing often meant conventional funerals could not be held. Religious communities of all kinds were disrupted at the exact moment mourners turned to them for support. These unprecedented circumstances caused dramatic transformations of not only communal rituals, but also how people make meaning after the losses of loved ones. This talk presents an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death. This talk, by Natasha L. Mikles—author of Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America—will tell the story of spiritual innovation, religious change, and the struggle to achieve personal and national self-understanding against the backdrop of mass casualties.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

FREE! Learn more and RSVP HERE

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.

Admission: $20 per session or $85 for a 5-session bundle - Tickets HERE

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.

In eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. Death Meditation is an ongoing guided meditation practice familiarizing participants, regardless of religious or spiritual background, with a feeling-based awareness of themselves. This awareness will be strengthened through mindfulness and guided meditation with the aim of awakening one’s inner-guide to assist us as we pass between life and death.

FREE! Learn more and RSVP HERE

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.

$8 - Tickets and more info HERE

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.