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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

Join us for an exploration of myth and liminal spaces in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. We will examine how the novel’s landscape holds the characters’ grief, connects them to death and the underworld, and helps them transmute trauma. The novel—author Toni Morrison’s fictionalization of the story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who fled to Ohio from a Kentucky plantation with her four children in 1856—earned Morrison the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was adapted as an award-winning motion picture. It also includes numerous mythic symbols from Greco-Roman mythology, Judeo-Christian tradition, and archetypal psychology, and examines the psychological and social repercussions of a mother’s act of infanticide and what occurs 18 years later when her child’s ghost returns.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

Sardinia’s witches, known as is cogas in the island’s dialect, are enigmatic figures steeped in mystery and folklore, captivating imaginations for centuries. Join Sardinian Design Archaeologist Marco Peralta for a night devoted to their origins and enduring cultural legacy, exploring why these figures remain potent symbols of Sardinian heritage. Over the course of this illustrated talk, we will trace the historical and mythological roots of the cogas. We will also examine the supernatural powers attributed to the cogas—their ability to cast curses, influence dreams, and manipulate destinies—as well as their rituals, with a focus on the role of wax. This fascinating substance—known for its transformative properties—serves as a bridge between the physical and the metaphysical, embodying deeper cultural connections and spiritual meanings.

Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein and Tiffany Hopkins are friends who have been teaching popular classes at the intersection of death, art, and culture for an organization called Morbid Anatomy over the past few years. Each has developed her class into a full-length book. Joanna’s Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life and Tiffany’s Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To Talking To The Dead each offer a look into bringing creativity and the dead into your life. In this workshop, you will get a chance to learn about how memento mori—or actively remembering you will die—and mediumship, or talking to the dead, can fuel creativity, healing and joy. 

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

Free to Patreon Members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp and Above Levels

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

Tonight’s speaker was given two years to live in 2017 after a Stage 4, metastatic cancer diagnosis from her doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her story of ongoing healing from cancer was retold in Joanna Ebenstein's book Memento Mori, where it provided an example of how confrontation with death can lead to a better life. In this illustrated talk, Slonaker will explain how her doctoral study of mythology and archetypes—along with her deep engagement with Jungian analysis—allowed her to heal long-term wounds at the soul-level which allowed her body to fight back against cancer. She will also demonstrate how archetypal narratives—especially that of the "The Night Sea Journey"—can provide us with pathway for understanding and metabolizing serious illness, and show how a variety of world myths demonstrate how a serious confrontation with death can be the beginning of a better life.

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.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 this free, informal online monthly meetup where Morbid Anatomy Patreon members are invited to engage in open and non-judgmental conversations about grief, death, and other darker aspects of the human experience with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

Yapper? Gift of gab? Talk a blue streak? Ever clear a room or change the vibe with an obscure death fact? Do you like to talk, even about topics like dying and death and wonder why no one else around you are so squeamish? Maybe talking about dying or death, even briefly, makes your heart race or your stomach churn. This talk will focus on talk about dying and death and explain some of the reasons for our strong reactions to the end of life. In addition to exploring theories, this session will also offer some practical tips for making THE talk easier.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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.

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 to watch the movie that the legendary writer and illustrator Edward Gorey called the greatest ever made! Louis Feuillade’s Barrabas is a French crime serial that weaves together themes of mystery, criminal masterminds, and suspense, set against a backdrop of shadowy intrigue and melodrama. Feuillade’s serials, including Fantômas and Les Vampires, helped define early 20th-century crime and gothic cinema, with their masked villains, secret societies, and a pervasive sense of unease.

Across premodern Europe, the night was believed to be alive with spectral processions like the Wild Hunt and Witches’ Sabbath—phantom gatherings of spirits, outcasts, and dreamers that blurred the lines between reality and the supernatural. These "Armies of the Night" preserved ancient pagan rituals and ecstatic visions, often repressed as heresy, and reflected deep fears and hopes about the soul and the mysteries of the unseen world. Historian Jason Lahman’s illustrated talk explores how these nocturnal myths reveal early Europeans’ imaginative responses to night, the afterlife, and the boundaries between worlds.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

“I believe we celebrate the wrong end of life. We throw parties for birthdays… Meanwhile we ignore the day that gives our life its deepest meaning. Our deathday.” So writes bestselling author Karen Salmansohn in her new book To Die For Life: How To Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret Before Your Time Runs Out, her new book that aims to help reframe thinking about death as motivating rather than morbid. In this talk, she’ll introduce her new book, and offer suggestions for reverse engineering your life—from your deathbed backwards—in order to transform your current life into the ideal of your aspirational eulogy. “Because,” in her words, ”nothing will motivate you to seize the day . . . more than realizing your days are numbered."

Most horror fans would likely agree that the witch is a feminist symbol—and there’s a reason for that. That Very Witch—the second book by Payton McCarty-Simas—examines the evolution of the witch as a symbol of feminism in America, taking a historiographic approach to how that figure has evolved; why do witches appear when they do? What can we learn about the state of feminism when they do (or don't!) take center stage in the culture? How has that representation changed alongside the culture over time? In this lecture, Payton will delve into parts of their research into this subject, touching on everything from the '60s counterculture to the Satanic Panic to Riot Grrrl to WitchTok and beyond.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon Members at the Memento Mori ($5/month) and above levels. Eligible members will get an invitation in their Patreon inbox. Become a member here.

Join Morbid Anatomy Founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein to discuss The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. This book, by religious studies professor Jeffrey Burton Russell, traces the history of the concept of evil from its beginnings in ancient times to the period of the New Testament. Drawing upon a vast number of sources and addressing the problem of evil over a broad span of time and in a number of diverse cultures, Russell probes the roots of the idea of evil, traces the development of the idea in the Ancient Near East, and examines the concept of the Devil as it was formed in late Judaism and early Christianity.

Why do monsters thrill and terrify us, and how have both they and we changed over time? This talk by author Nicholas Jubber embarks on a global journey through monster lore—from Cornish giants, Bavarian dragons, and Japanese oni, to the Louisiana werewolf. Starting with the monstrous gods of antiquity and traveling up to the present day, we’ll see how monsters offer a shadow history to our own, shaping foundational myths and distilling collective traumas. Far more than mere bug-eyed spectacles, monsters act as mirrors to our evolving humanity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and stories, Jubber explores what keeps monsters relevant and how they continue to evolve alongside us.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

In the 1840s, the Fox Sisters and the Spiritualist movement they sparked transformed séances from parlor tricks into political and personal statements, drawing suffragists, scientists, and skeptics alike. Spiritualism gave women a voice and blurred lines between faith, fraud, feminism, and financial opportunity, attracting figures from Harry Houdini to Victoria Woodhull. In this lecture, Ilise S. Carter—author of When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women their Voice—explores how Spiritualism’s forgotten roots shaped today’s fascination with manifestation and mysticism, tracing how the supernatural evolved from heresy to a powerful social force.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

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 is necessary. 

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront off the D/N/R subway lines, exit at 36th Street. The Library is located at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 on the second floor. Use the stairwell or elevators next to Jus by Julie. You will find us in room 2-C248 from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

The alter ego is a gateway to the glittering, rebellious world of underground nightlife, where drag artists, club kids, and cabaret misfits transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. This tradition of radical self-invention—seen in icons like Klaus Nomi, Divine, and the Club Kids—celebrates the bizarre and the beautiful, turning nightlife into a stage for personal and artistic liberation. With wild costumes, bold personas, and a spirit of defiance, these scenes invite us to break free from convention and embrace our most creative selves. Join artist Le Pustra for a lively discussion on the transformative power of alter egos in nightlife and cabaret, and hear about his own evolution from outsider to living work of art.