Boroughs of the Dead

Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!

Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

We working class ghosts (and guides) are feeling hopeful about NYC today. High fives to our fellow gig workers, underpaid adjuncts, underemployed historians, and artists-working-three-jobs this morning.

"I detest the expression “horror film.” I make films on the supernatural and I make them because I believe it." – Jacques Tourneur

Cats and their owners lined up alongside a wall

A boy holds a leash attached to a black cat

Black cat wears sunglasses.

For National Cat Day, my favorite kitty-Hollywood connection: 152 black cats (and their owners) auditioning for the title role in a film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” (LIFE magazine, 1961).

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A Lifelong Upper West Sider says: "I was excited by the prospect of an UWS ghost tour, but also apprehensive that it might just be a rehash of history and stories that I already know. I was pleasantly surprised to also learn many new spooky things about my neighborhood." This is HUGE praise.

Oh I love everything about this

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This morning’s hype anthem

Sorry, boo baskets are lame, not boo buckets (which are awesome). Also, I just read the article and these are ... adults? Doing this for other adults? Yikes.

A few years ago a neighbor left Boo Buckets on everyone's doormat with the cutesy "You've been BOOed!" note and the response, unanimously, was "WTF is this shit?" So glad we live in NYC, where we trick or treat in bodegas like normal people.

On a totally unrelated note, I spent my weekend leading Victorian cemetery tours. What a fun way to learn about unvaccinated children! You can count up all their tiny gravestones!

Deeply moved by some of our recent customer reviews. Really! Don't laugh! When you pour your soul into something and it is appreciated, it's an otherworldly feeling. Thank you to everyone who has supported and is still supporting our very small, very heartfelt business.

Clémentine Dondey

Fortune Teller Studying a Book of Necromancy (Devineresse étudiant un livre de nécromancie), 1847

America's Most Gothic: Haunted NYC Sites Uncover the most haunted locations in New York City with authors Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes!

Tonight! With Untapped Cities: www.untappedcities.com/americas-mos...

America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction|Audiobook We often think of the enduring tropes of the Gothic in terms of fiction and film-breath-catching escapes that tap into our fears, anxieties, forbidden desires, and unsettling dreams. But what if some ...

Fun fact: Dan Aykroyd, the Fox sisters, and I were all born in Ontario, Canada. What does it all mean!? Who knows, but why don't you spend 12 hours listening to my new audiobook to see if you can detect my Canadian accent? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/americas-m...

If it's a Tuesday, some great books are being published. Buy or borrow a good book today.

I genuinely love being quoted in the @satevepost.bsky.social about this... also, should I bring back my Gotham by Gaslight tour this year?

I wonder why nobody has ever recommended Tales from the Haunted South? It is by far the best of the three. (3/?)

The two books that influenced me the most while writing Invisible Women were Ghostland and Tales from the Haunted South. Many, many negative reviews of our books recommend folks read Ghostland instead, as it is superior to our book. Fair enough, but ... (1/?)

I remember this case so vividly (I also grew up in Ontario, was about 15 at the time) and I've been ambivalent about true crime all my life... and doing the Thing I Do For Money absolutely makes me fear being stained by blood and greed. Definitely the Substack for me.

Some Words with a (Brooklyn) Mummy With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe

You really won't want to miss these stories of haunted Brooklyn mummies. Head on over to our Substack or be eternally cursed!

Next Witches of Old NY runs October 12th!

Boroughs of the Dead | Substack Boroughs of the Dead is a walking tour company in New York City. We explore the city's strange, dark and unusual histories and hauntings. Our guides are published authors and working artists. Posts wr...

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Witches of Old New York - Boroughs of the Dead Uncover the secrets of fortune tellers, mystics, and clairvoyants on the "Witches of Old New York" tour. Explore the Lower East Side's occult history with Boroughs of the Dead and learn about Jewish m...

Only a few tickets remain for our Witches of Old New York tour on Sunday, September 28th 🔮 Conjure your tickets up here: boroughsofthedead.com/tours/witche...

Boroughs of the Dead Ghosts of the Seaport tour. September 26, October 10 and 21.

Nautical horror, ghost ships, drowning, death, rats everywhere.... in other words, a fun Friday night in New York. Ghosts of the Seaport tour. Tickets on sale now: boroughsofthedead.com/tours/ghosts...

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History "These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

The purpose of AI is to destroy any consensus of history, example #4,528,926

The Uncanny Upper West Side - Boroughs of the Dead Discover the Haunted, Uncanny, and Occult on the Upper West Side Join us for strange tales of spirits, psychics, and seances on this tour of the Uncanny Upper West Side. Once the hinterlands of Manhat...

New tour! The Uncanny Upper West Side. Tickets on sale now at boroughsofthedead.com/tours/the-un...

Thanks Mary! :)