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Free Online Book Talk · Haunted Histories for Yuletide · Tales from America's Most Gothic with Authors Andrea Janes and Leanna Renee Hieber
Monday, December 22, 2025
7pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
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The Gothic is all around us. Isolated mansions, trauma-ridden specters, macabre love, and entrapped women are pervasive archetypes that tune into our hidden fears, cultural anxieties, and forbidden desires. Though primarily associated with fiction, literature, and film, these archetypes also appear in "true" stories in American ghost lore. America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes is a tour through the uncanny tales of real people and settings that exude that elusive Gothic vibe.
Winter has always been an ideal time for a tale of terror, and the Gothic is a genre whose origins can be traced to a long-ago Christmas Eve -- December 24th, 1764, with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto -- so in the spirit of the season, Andrea and Leanna will share a selection of tales from America’s Most Gothic. Here are cursed families, mysterious omens, open crypts and hidden chambers, haunted houses and buildings, and wild landscapes dotted with dead ships, swamps shrouded in deathly fogs—yet each story is a very real part of American history and culture. Think of it as a nonfiction twist to the long tradition of telling ghost stories at Yuletide.
Dim the lights, curl up with a mug of something warming, and discover the history that truly is stranger than fiction in this illustrated talk that's perfect for a dark winter evening.
Andrea Janes is the founder of Boroughs of the Dead: Macabre NYC History Tours, and the co-author of A Haunted History of Invisible Women. Visit her at boroughsofthedead.com
Leanna Renee Hieber is an award-winning author and paranormal history expert. She’s a three-time Prism Award winner and a Daphne Du Maurier Award finalist. Leanna can be found online at: LeannaReneeHieber.com.
Monday, December 22, 2025
7pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
The Gothic is all around us. Isolated mansions, trauma-ridden specters, macabre love, and entrapped women are pervasive archetypes that tune into our hidden fears, cultural anxieties, and forbidden desires. Though primarily associated with fiction, literature, and film, these archetypes also appear in "true" stories in American ghost lore. America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes is a tour through the uncanny tales of real people and settings that exude that elusive Gothic vibe.
Winter has always been an ideal time for a tale of terror, and the Gothic is a genre whose origins can be traced to a long-ago Christmas Eve -- December 24th, 1764, with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto -- so in the spirit of the season, Andrea and Leanna will share a selection of tales from America’s Most Gothic. Here are cursed families, mysterious omens, open crypts and hidden chambers, haunted houses and buildings, and wild landscapes dotted with dead ships, swamps shrouded in deathly fogs—yet each story is a very real part of American history and culture. Think of it as a nonfiction twist to the long tradition of telling ghost stories at Yuletide.
Dim the lights, curl up with a mug of something warming, and discover the history that truly is stranger than fiction in this illustrated talk that's perfect for a dark winter evening.
Andrea Janes is the founder of Boroughs of the Dead: Macabre NYC History Tours, and the co-author of A Haunted History of Invisible Women. Visit her at boroughsofthedead.com
Leanna Renee Hieber is an award-winning author and paranormal history expert. She’s a three-time Prism Award winner and a Daphne Du Maurier Award finalist. Leanna can be found online at: LeannaReneeHieber.com.