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erin morgenstern
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Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
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erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Nov 15
So many new people! Hello! I would guess that you're here because you’ve read one or more of my books, The Night Circus & The Starless Sea, or you like my cat, Lady Vesper Victoria Sparkles Motorboat Morgenstern-Scott. This is a short re-intro thread to cover a few other things. 🖤
Paperback copies of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea on a large wood table. The corner of The Night Circus is being gently gnawed on by a silver and white tabby cat.
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Happy Lunar New Year 🖤🥂🎠
A glass of champagne sitting on a wooden library card catalogue next to a bronze statue of a carousel horse and under an art deco lamp covered in glass prisms.
February 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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Preorders for the LitJoy box set are now open! These are very special, very limited editions. Have I mentioned that the covers have removable metal charms? (Covers designed by Lichen & Limestone, they also make candles!) It's all very fancy. 🖤 Preorder info here: litjoycrate.com/products/the...
A graphic showing the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea, with new ornately designed covers in silver and gold foil, respectively, on black covers. They are shown over desaturated versions of Patsy Lascano's endpaper illustrations. Text reads: The Night Circus & The Starless Sea special edition book box set, preorders open, Erin Morgenstern x Litjoy.
February 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Preorders for the LitJoy box set are now open! These are very special, very limited editions. Have I mentioned that the covers have removable metal charms? (Covers designed by Lichen & Limestone, they also make candles!) It's all very fancy. 🖤 Preorder info here: litjoycrate.com/products/the...
A graphic showing the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea, with new ornately designed covers in silver and gold foil, respectively, on black covers. They are shown over desaturated versions of Patsy Lascano's endpaper illustrations. Text reads: The Night Circus & The Starless Sea special edition book box set, preorders open, Erin Morgenstern x Litjoy.
February 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Preorders for the LitJoy set of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea open tomorrow, Feb 4th! Ships in the fall. These editions contain dozens of annotations written by me & beautiful art by multiple artists. (I made Patsy Lascano's endpapers my desktop wallpaper.) litjoycrate.com/products/the...
A photograph of a page from The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (that's me), the chapter title is "Ailuromancy" and there is a hand-written note, pointing at it with a little arrow, that reads "divination using the movement of cats!" in questionable handwriting in black ink. Photo of a corner of a desk mostly taken up by an iMac displaying an illustration by Patsy Lascano depicting a scene from The Starless Sea: a sprawling space filled with columns and books and a large metallic orrery. Surrounding the computer there are rabbits and witches and crystals and origami, and bare winter trees are visible through the window behind it.
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Preorders for the LitJoy set of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea open tomorrow, Feb 4th! Ships in the fall. These editions contain dozens of annotations written by me & beautiful art by multiple artists. (I made Patsy Lascano's endpapers my desktop wallpaper.) litjoycrate.com/products/the...
A photograph of a page from The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (that's me), the chapter title is "Ailuromancy" and there is a hand-written note, pointing at it with a little arrow, that reads "divination using the movement of cats!" in questionable handwriting in black ink. Photo of a corner of a desk mostly taken up by an iMac displaying an illustration by Patsy Lascano depicting a scene from The Starless Sea: a sprawling space filled with columns and books and a large metallic orrery. Surrounding the computer there are rabbits and witches and crystals and origami, and bare winter trees are visible through the window behind it.
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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This gorgeous set includes both books in a custom slipcase, covers with foiled designs & metal inlays, illustrated edges, art by several different incredible artists as well as a multitude of personal annotations from the author in my questionable handwriting. 🖤 litjoycrate.com/products/the...
A graphic displaying mockups of the upcoming LitJoy edition of The Night Circus, showing both the cover and the back as well as the illustrated edges. The covers are black with elaborate silver foiling displaying a clock about to strike midnight and circus tents and stars, the clock face on the cover is metal. Cover design by Lichen & Limestone, page edges by Fyodor Pavlov. A graphic displaying mockups of the upcoming LitJoy edition of The Starless Sea, showing both the cover and the back as well as the illustrated edges. The covers are black with elaborate gold foiling displaying doors with bees and keys and swords, the back includes a crown, a heart and a feather. The sword on the cover is metal. Cover design by Lichen & Limestone, page edges by Fyodor Pavlov.
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Delighted to finally be able to announce these beautiful new editions of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea coming soon from LitJoy! 🖤 Much more info here: litjoycrate.com/products/the...
A graphic displaying mockups of the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea, showing two angles of both books in a single slipcase covered with black, white and grey tarot-inspired designs by artist Fyodor Pavlov. A graphic composed of two slivers of art from the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea. One side depicts Marco and Celia under the candle-covered Wishing Tree from The Night Circus, the other side depicts a paint-covered Zachary arriving in the Heart of the Harbor from The Starless Sea, both pieces by artist Patsy Lascano.
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Apparently I'm being impersonated in a version of this now. Unsolicited email from a gmail address with my name + numbers is not from me, of course. I can barely keep up with my actual email.
January 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Delighted to finally be able to announce these beautiful new editions of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea coming soon from LitJoy! 🖤 Much more info here: litjoycrate.com/products/the...
A graphic displaying mockups of the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea, showing two angles of both books in a single slipcase covered with black, white and grey tarot-inspired designs by artist Fyodor Pavlov. A graphic composed of two slivers of art from the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea. One side depicts Marco and Celia under the candle-covered Wishing Tree from The Night Circus, the other side depicts a paint-covered Zachary arriving in the Heart of the Harbor from The Starless Sea, both pieces by artist Patsy Lascano.
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Favorite books I read in 2025:

Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
The River Has Roots- @amalelmohtar.com
The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
The Everlasting - @alixeharrow.bsky.social
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - @sgj.bsky.social
A stack of the aforementioned books on a desk in front of a window, with a silver tabby cat sitting very politely next to them.
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Annual New Year's Eve Post is up on the blog. 🖤 Goodbye 2025, you were a Time: erinmorgenstern.com/2025/12/good...
A collage of photos including the title page of the Folio Society edition of The Night Circus, a kitten attempting to eat the Folio Society edition of The Night Circus, the very shiny red edition of The Night Circus from Acrylipics and a teacup with the Starless Sea tea blend from Old Growth Alchemy. A lane at night flanked with bare trees and snow. The trees are lit with white light and behind them is a red glow. Photo taken at Nightwood at the Mount in Lenox, MA.
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Annual New Year's Eve Post is up on the blog. 🖤 Goodbye 2025, you were a Time: erinmorgenstern.com/2025/12/good...
A collage of photos including the title page of the Folio Society edition of The Night Circus, a kitten attempting to eat the Folio Society edition of The Night Circus, the very shiny red edition of The Night Circus from Acrylipics and a teacup with the Starless Sea tea blend from Old Growth Alchemy. A lane at night flanked with bare trees and snow. The trees are lit with white light and behind them is a red glow. Photo taken at Nightwood at the Mount in Lenox, MA.
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Favorite books I read in 2025:

Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
The River Has Roots- @amalelmohtar.com
The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
The Everlasting - @alixeharrow.bsky.social
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - @sgj.bsky.social
A stack of the aforementioned books on a desk in front of a window, with a silver tabby cat sitting very politely next to them.
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Cheeses for us Meeces!
A plate of multiple cheeses (a roquefort, a gouda, a humbolt fog) and honeycomb (there are crackers and bread and persimmons and jalapeños out of frame) next to a glass of port. In the background is a television displaying the title screen of The Muppet Christmas Carol.
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Happy Solstice 🦉

#kidlitart #watercolor #gouache
watercolor and gouache painting with a bit of tailors chalk of a barn owl sitting on a fence post amid some frost-covered leaves and the first flakes of snow
December 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Oh, man. I did the "Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?" monologue from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead so many times for an acting class in college. Never got old, even after countless repetitions. Just a perfect wandering of thoughts & transitions.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Nov 29
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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If you are looking for something tarot gift-wise I also suggest The Somnia Tarot by Nicholas Bruno. The revised edition and the companion oracle have become my go-to decks this year. (15% off for Small Business Saturday!) 🖤
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I was reminded recently that many people are unaware that I painted a tarot deck that was published a couple of years ago by Clarkson Potter! The Phantomwise Tarot makes an excellent gift and is available where books or decks are sold, including @bookshop.org 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Cards from The Phantomwise Tarot spread out across a surface, completely covering the frame. Each card is painted in monochrome with black borders and white script titles. A pile of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot being rolled upon by a silver tabby cat. (It's part of her tarot reading process.)
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I was reminded recently that many people are unaware that I painted a tarot deck that was published a couple of years ago by Clarkson Potter! The Phantomwise Tarot makes an excellent gift and is available where books or decks are sold, including @bookshop.org 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Cards from The Phantomwise Tarot spread out across a surface, completely covering the frame. Each card is painted in monochrome with black borders and white script titles. A pile of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot being rolled upon by a silver tabby cat. (It's part of her tarot reading process.)
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Spending the afternoon signing books for Odyssey Bookshop and watching Elden Ring Bingo. Vesper is "helping." Waiting on one more shipment of books which should be here soon and then everything will go to Odyssey for shipping. Thank you for supporting a fantastic indie bookstore 🖤
A long wooden table with several stacks of paperback copies of The Starless Sea, a large cardboard box with a Penguin Random House penguin on it, and a silver tabby cat sprawled out around the books with her paws up in the air, who thinks there should be less signing and more petting.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A toast to Herr Thiessen, 2025 🖤
A skeleton-handed glass of white wine sitting on a bookshelf, surrounded by a Darla Jackson sculpture of a fox, a Burke & Hare candle (Haunted) and a very small pumpkin. There are books by Calvino and Carroll on the shelves. You can't hear it, but in the background Florence + the Machine's "Everybody Scream" is playing. Happy Halloween & Blessed Samhain.
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Time is limited to get a signed and personalized copy of the astounding "The Starless Sea" by
@erinmorgenstern.bsky.social at @odysseybks.bsky.social

I also added Odyssey to my Indie Bookstore #StarterPack. If you subscribe to both you follow almost 200 indies!

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erinmorgenstern.bsky.social erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Sep 19
For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A stack of hardcover copies of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern in front of a silver tabby cat with an expression on her face that seems to say "why do you have so many copies of the same book?"
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Reminder that tomorrow, October 31st, is the last day to order signed & personalized books from Odyssey Bookshop! The first wave of books has arrived and they've been thoroughly checked by the resident Box Inspector/Halloween Cat 🎃 Ordering information here: odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A large pile of cardboard boxes with a silver tabby cat standing on top of them. The cat is attempting to be scary or possibly just finished yawning, with her back up and her tongue out.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I started a new island in August, this news just made my day 🖤
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Reminder that tomorrow, October 31st, is the last day to order signed & personalized books from Odyssey Bookshop! The first wave of books has arrived and they've been thoroughly checked by the resident Box Inspector/Halloween Cat 🎃 Ordering information here: odysseybks.com/morgenstern
A large pile of cardboard boxes with a silver tabby cat standing on top of them. The cat is attempting to be scary or possibly just finished yawning, with her back up and her tongue out.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM