Boroughs of the Dead
@boroughsofthedead.bsky.social
Macabre New York City walking tours led by artists and writers. Slightly unhinged posts by founder Andrea Janes here, normal business-y stuff here:
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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
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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
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.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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
I wrote about Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling and uncertain Night of the Demon (1957), over at my Old New substack.
Not a Superstitious Sucker: Night of the Demon (1957)
On Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling horror film
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October 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"I detest the expression “horror film.” I make films on the supernatural and I make them because I believe it." – Jacques Tourneur
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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).
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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).
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.
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
How a Hollywood tour guide discovered an unknown celebrity grave
How a Hollywood tour guide discovered an unknown celebrity grave
The Bride of Frankenstein actress Elsa Lanchester will be celebrated on October 28, her 123rd birthday.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Oh I love everything about this
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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This morning’s hype anthem
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This morning’s hype anthem
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.
TikTok and brands turned our most natural, nostalgic season into another marketing moment.
"Boo baskets," the needless trend ruining what's really great about fall
TikTok and brands turned our most natural, nostalgic season into another marketing moment.
www.salon.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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!
South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days.
That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.
That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...
www.propublica.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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.
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Clémentine Dondey
Fortune Teller Studying a Book of Necromancy (Devineresse étudiant un livre de nécromancie), 1847
Fortune Teller Studying a Book of Necromancy (Devineresse étudiant un livre de nécromancie), 1847
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Clémentine Dondey
Fortune Teller Studying a Book of Necromancy (Devineresse étudiant un livre de nécromancie), 1847
Fortune Teller Studying a Book of Necromancy (Devineresse étudiant un livre de nécromancie), 1847
Tonight! With Untapped Cities: www.untappedcities.com/americas-mos...
America's Most Gothic: Haunted NYC Sites
Uncover the most haunted locations in New York City with authors Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes!
www.untappedcities.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tonight! With Untapped Cities: www.untappedcities.com/americas-mos...
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...
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 ...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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...
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If it's a Tuesday, some great books are being published. Buy or borrow a good book today.
October 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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?
Did Jack the Ripper end up in America? Some tales would have you believe so.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/jack...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/jack...
Jack the Ripper in America | The Saturday Evening Post
Did Jack the Ripper escape to the U.S. and continue his bloody work here? Although there is no definitive proof this ever happened, these cities claim to have a tie to the infamous killer.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I genuinely love being quoted in the @satevepost.bsky.social about this... also, should I bring back my Gotham by Gaslight tour this year?
You really won't want to miss these stories of haunted Brooklyn mummies. Head on over to our Substack or be eternally cursed!
Some Words with a (Brooklyn) Mummy
With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe
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October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
You really won't want to miss these stories of haunted Brooklyn mummies. Head on over to our Substack or be eternally cursed!
Fun fact: we have a Substack now
substack.com/@boroughsoft...
substack.com/@boroughsoft...
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...
substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Fun fact: we have a Substack now
substack.com/@boroughsoft...
substack.com/@boroughsoft...
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...
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...
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September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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...
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...
September 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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...
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The purpose of AI is to destroy any consensus of history, example #4,528,926
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."
www.404media.co
September 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The purpose of AI is to destroy any consensus of history, example #4,528,926
New tour! The Uncanny Upper West Side. Tickets on sale now at boroughsofthedead.com/tours/the-un...
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...
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August 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New tour! The Uncanny Upper West Side. Tickets on sale now at boroughsofthedead.com/tours/the-un...
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These are *great* tours. Anyone want to join me for the Roosevelt Island tour? I always try to schedule one for my "At long, dreadful last, it is October" gift to myself.
August 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
These are *great* tours. Anyone want to join me for the Roosevelt Island tour? I always try to schedule one for my "At long, dreadful last, it is October" gift to myself.
Boo! 👻 Book now: boroughsofthedead.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Boo! 👻 Book now: boroughsofthedead.com