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Video Recordings of Lectures

• Cinematic Surrealism in Los Angeles: Maya Deren and David Lynch by Sabina Stent and David Lynch: Cinema’s Uncanny Master by Mary Wild, Part of the Art and Occult Series

• Silent Languages and Images that Speak with Educator, Artist and Scholar Dr Sasha Chaitow

• SoulCraft: Understanding the UFO as a Death Symbol with author Joshua Cutchin

• Honoré Fragonard and the Musée Fragonard de l'École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, by Christophe Degueurce, Dean of the National Veterinary School of Alfort, Curator of the Fragonard Museum

• Speaking with the Dead in Early America, by Erik R. Seeman, Professor and Chair, History Department, University at Buffalo

• A Haunted History of Invisible Women: a Virtual Book Talk with Authors Andrea Janes and Leanna Renee Hieber

• Votives of Europe: From Wax Toads to Bladder Stones with Historian Sergei Zotov

• Body Modification, Polymorphous Perversity and Pandrogeny by Vanessa Sinclair and Forcing the Hand of Chance – A Look at the DIY Occulture of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) by Carl Abrahamsson

• Over the Psychic Radio: Video-Recording of a Live, Online Symposium Dedicated to Artist and Occultist Grant Wallace, Produced in Partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery

• Reimagining an Ancient Festival: How Día de Muertos Became an Instrument for Decolonization and Indigenization by scholar Salvador Olguin

• The Power of Christ Compels You! The Theatre and Spectacle of Exorcism by Eric Huang of Saint Podcast

• Georges Bataille's Accursed Politics with Author Colin Dickey

• Human Sacrifice & Watery Graves: The Bog Bodies Of Northern Europe by Scholar Liz Andres

• How to Honor Our Dead Pets: A Conversation with Authors E.B. Bartels and Annie Hartnett

• Lost Dimensions: The Psychic and the Technical by Isabel Millar and From Success Comes Failure, on Cloud Computing by Dwayne Monroe: Part of Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Series

• Period: A Cultural History of Menstruation by Marybec Griffin

• Imagination as Sixth-Sense: A Conversation between Actor Paul Giamatti and Philosopher Dr Stephen Asma

• Artist of Death Frederik Ruysch: A Special Symposium and Book Launch for “Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide”

• All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work with Author Hayley Campbell

• Exploring Consciousness through Liminal Dreaming by Jennifer Dumpert and Cinematic Dream Sequences by Mary Wild: Part of the Art and the Occult Series Curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson

• American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by Author and Religious Studies Professor Dr. Diana Pasulka

• The Museum of Fear and Wonder: An Archive of Fantastic Craft on the Canadian Prairies with Founders Brendan Griebel and Jude Griebel

• The Witch Craze in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Teo Ruiz, Professor of History at UCLA

• Spare Parts: A Five-Hundred Year History of Transplant Surgery by Cultural Historian and Award-Winning Author Dr. Paul Craddock

• “Ja, das ist Berlin:” The Real Berliner Kabarett Revealed with Cabaret Performer Madame Le Pustra

• Rosa Bonheur: Master Painter, Pioneering Feminist, and 19th Century Gender-Bending Superstar by Marie Dauenheimer, MA, CMI

• Illuminated Grimoires: Demons, Angels, Sigils, and Many More with Historian Sergei Zotov

• The Atavistic Network by Charlotte Rodgers and Necromancy: Working with Blood and Adopted Ancestors in Art and Magic by Dr Vanessa Sinclair

• Mystic Bulls and Talking Snakes: The Art of Ancient Mystery Cults by Art Historian and Educator Brenda Edgar

• Death, Ancestors and The Otherworld in Matriarchal Societies by Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth of The International Academy for Modern Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality

• Beggar’s Banquet: The Curious History of the Sin Eater by Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann

• Animism for Apocalypse by Langston Kahn and Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanic Traditions by David Shi, Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Series

• Reason and the Occult: New Reflections on the Philosophy of Magic by Dr Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters

• A Look at Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy by Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein and Screening and Director Q and A with Ronni Thomas for Viktor Wynd

• The Gods Speak in Pictures: The Role of Altered States of Consciousness in Prehistoric Art and Beyond by Art Historian and Educator Brenda Edgar

• Anatomical Expressionism: How the Corpse Expresses Itself Through Artists with Eleanor Crook, Anatomical Artist and Morbid Anatomy European Attaché

• “The Death Drive on Film” by Mary Wild and “The Revolution will go Viral… on Sexting, the Digital & Contagion” by Dr Clint Burnham, Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Series

• Underworld Tales: A Transit Museum and Morbid Anatomy Variety Show

• Moirology: The Art of Lamentation by Master Jeweler, Educator and Art Historian Karen Bachmann

• Gendering the Living Machine: A Psycho-Cultural, Techno-Historical Exploration with Artist and Educator Jason Lahman

• The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sacred and Carnal Devotion to Saints by Eric Huang of Saint Podcast

• Suffering Souls: The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead by University Lecturer and Author Ivan Cenzi of Bizzarro Bazar

• Dodos, Dioramas, and the Art of Deception: Exploring the Spectrum of Museum Taxidermy by Scholar Liz Andres

• Cabarets of Death - Playing with Death and the Afterlife in Popular Amusements by Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Founder and editor of Mel Gordon’s Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris, for Viktor Wynd

• Uncanny Aspects of Oscar Wilde: “Dancing With Salome: Decadence & the Supernatural” by Nina Antonia and “Activating Wilde’s World View” by Robert Podgurski, Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Series 

• The Foreskin of Jesus Christ: The Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town: A Special Easter Talk by Author and Travel Writer David Farley

• Mask of Death: Medusa and the Horror of the Gorgon by Scholar Liz Andres

• Cultural History of Robots: Myth to Modernity with Jason Lahman, Formerly of San Francisco State University

• A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey by Indie Rock Musician and Author Jonathan Meiburg

• Beauty, Power, & Immortality: The Witch's Quest in Hollywood Cinema by Heather Greene

• Dionysus Stardust: Theater, Masks, and the Spectacle of Rock & Roll by Peter Bebergal, Author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll

• The Compleat Story: How Anton LaVey Created The Compleat Witch by Peggy Nadramia: Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Series

• The Heroine with 1,001 Faces: The Astonishing History of Heroines, From Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman by Professor and Author Maria Tatar

• The Leper Messiah: A Look at the Iconographic Tradition of the Diseased Christ in Art by Professor Brenda Edgar

• Beauty Memory Unity: Proportion and the Animation of Matter with Architect and Educator Steve Bass

• Gothic: An Illustrated History by Professor Dr. Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London

• The Ultimate Triangle: An Illustrated History of the G-String with Jo Weldon, Author of The Burlesque Handbook and Headmistress of The New York School of Burlesque

• Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicity and Notes on the Occult Influence of Derek Jarman with Gary Lachman and Carl Abrahamsson, Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult Series

• The Many Sides of Pamela Colman Smith: A Panel Discussion with Susan Wands, Mary K. Greer, Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Dawn Robinson, and Sasha Graham

• A Rhapsody of Bizarre and Extravagant Figures: Tarot as a Living Language in Countless Voices with Laetitia Barbier, author of Tarot and Divinations Cards: A Visual Archive

• America is Haunted by Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Curator of Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art

• Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers and Executions by Author K Krombie

• The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant, Part of Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult

• Two Existentialist Theories of Death with Dr. Kiki Berk, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern New Hampshire University

• The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Appreciating Goya in Disastrous Times by Eleanor Crook, Artist and Morbid Anatomist

• Saint Ursula and the Cult of 11,000 Virgins by Eric Huang, Producer and Host of Saint Podcast

• Ghosts, Ritualists, and the Undead: The Witch in American Horror with Heather Greene, Author ofLights Camera Witchcraft

• “Up, Up O Ye Gods!” – Hermeticism as a Path for Modern Seekers + Secrecy Exposed! – On the Necessity of Psychic Stigma and Dynamic Darkness in Occultism with Mitch Horowitz and Carl Abrahamsson

• Miraculous Bones: The Cult of Relics in the Middle Ages with Professor Brenda Edgar

• Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge by Dr. Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent

• Cheese Mites To Planet Earth: A History of Natural History Film with Erin Chapman

• Día de Muertos en Tiempos del Coronavirus with Salvador Olguín

• The Memoria Symposium, Exploring Artistic Innovations in Memorial and Memento Mori Ritual

• Humor and Death: What Do the Clowns Say, And Is It Funny? by Writer, Performer and PhD Candidate Tim Reid

• The Death of Michael Rockefeller by Carl Hoffman, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• Goddess Kali: Interrogating the Allure of the Fierce Feminine with Sally Kempton, Educator and Author of Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation

• Jesus’ Jobs: Carpenter, Warrior, Merchant, and Many More with Historian Sergei Zotov

• Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural with Author and Historian Marc Hartzman

• The Desire to Acquire: A Psychological Profile of the Serious Collector: A Panel Discussion Hosted by Apex Art

• Grimoires & Magical Books by Owen Davies, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• Mors Pretiosa: Three Italian Religious Ossuaries by University Lecturer and Author Ivan Cenzi of Bizzarro Bazar

• The Face of Fear: Faces in Gothic Horror Films with Icy Sedgwick and “How Weird is That?” with Dr. Kasper Opstrup, Part of Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult

• Living Dolls: Hysterics, Androids, Animated Corpses and Sex Dolls with Asti Hustvedt, editor of Zone Book's Decadent Reader

• Octopus Sorcery: A History, Philosophy & Magic of Cephalopods with Magic Historian Dr. Alexander Cummins

• Witch Pictures: Feminine Magic and Transgression in Western Art with Pam Grossman, Author of Waking the Witch

• Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge by Dr. Jeremy Narby, author of "The Cosmic Serpent"

• Cheese Mites To Planet Earth: A History of Natural History Film with Erin Chapman

• Día de Muertos en Tiempos del Coronavirus with Salvador Olguín

• The Memoria Symposium, Exploring Artistic Innovations in Memorial and Memento Mori Ritual

• Humor and Death: What Do the Clowns Say, And Is It Funny? by Writer, Performer and PhD Candidate Tim Reid

• The Death of Michael Rockefeller by Carl Hoffman, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• Goddess Kali: Interrogating the Allure of the Fierce Feminine an Illustrated Lecture with Sally Kempton, Educator and Author of "Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation"

• Jesus’ Jobs: Carpenter, Warrior, Merchant, and Many More: Video Recording of an Illustrated Zoom Lecture with Historian Sergei Zotov

• Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural: A Video Recording of an Illustrated Online Zoom Lecture and Book Launch with Author and Historian Marc Hartzman

• The Man Who Married Kittens: Videorecording of a Screening and Director Q and A, with Apex Art

• Dancing in the Graveyard: Death Imagery in Satanism by Blanche Barton and Memento Mori Forever by Carl Abrahamsson, part of the Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult Series

• Dead and Lovely by Writer Elizabeth Harper

• Jungian Psychoanalysis, Image and Imagination by Jungian Analyst Michael Vannoy Adams

• Panel Discussion on The Art of Collecting Taxidermy and Natural History with Curator JD Powe, artist Mark Dion, Evan Michelson of TV's Oddities and the East Village’s iconic Obscura Antiques, and Collectors Adam Baschian and Sabrina Hansen

• Satanism and Magic in the Age of the Moulin Rouge by Author Tara Isabella Burton

• The Two Antichrists with Peter Grey and Alkistis Dimech of The Scarlet Imprint, part of the Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult Series

• From Nature Worship to Devil Worship: The Evolution of Pan by Scholar Liz Andres

• Mary Wild on “Taxidermy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho” and Discussion with Anna Biller, Writer and Director of “The Love Witch” & “Viva,” Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult Series

• Statues of Flesh: The Italian Petrifiers by University Lecturer and Author Ivan Cenzi, of Bizzarro Bazar

• Artificial Intelligence and the Patipolitical Body with Dr. Isabel Millar, and Freud’s Explorations of the Occult with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Series

• Michael Sappol: Self Portrait in 100 Anatomical Objects and Subjects, Lecture for SVA, 2019

• An Iconography of the Flesh: How Corpses Mean as Matter: An Illustrated Lecture with Margaret Schwartz, Fordham University

• Dissecting Nudes, by Daniel Margocsy, Reader in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge

• On the Breathing of Puppets: Life Beyond--Before, After, or Without--Breath and Pulse by Visual Artist Chiara Ambrosio

• A Look at Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy with Joanna Ebenstein

• Eternal Resting Places: Paris’ Père Lachaise to New York’ Green-Wood Cemeteries by Dr. Seth Gopin

• Best Friends Forever: The Greatest Collection of Taxidermy Dogs on Earth: Illustrated Lecture, Book Launch and Show and Tell with J.D. Powe

• The Cultural History of Ghosts: An Illustrated Lecture by Susan Owens, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History, with Author Ilise Carter

• Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation, by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair

• Muses of the Underworld: The Sirens of Ancient Greece, with Scholar Liz Andres

• Leonora Carrington, My Mother: A Live, Illustrated Lecture by Gaby Weisz, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism, with Dr. Manon Hedenborg White

• Opium and Empire: Lecture and Show and Tell with Antiques Dealer and Star of TV’s Oddities Evan Michelson

• Fascinating Ted Talk on Left and right Brain Activity, Strokes, and Enlightenment

• Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, and His Anatomical Still Lifes of Dissected Bodies by Medical Illustrator Marie Dauenehimer

• On The Monstrous Pictures of Whales: A Live, Illustrated Lecture by Philip Hoare, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• Iconographical Mayhem: Monstrous Saints, Folklore and Mysticism in Orthodox Icons, Old and New with Sergei Zotov

• Necromanteion: Oracles of the Dead and Prophetic Seers of the Ancient World (Or: If You Want to Know the Future, Ask a Dead Person): A Live, Virtual Visit to the Ancient Underworld with Eleanor Crook

• Paracelsus and Print: The World of 16th Century Alchemy: A Show and Tell of Rare Books from the Becker Medical Library with Librarian Elisabeth Brander and Alchemist Brian Cotnoir

• Sex, Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt with Professor Ava Forte Vitali

• Bodies Embalmed by Us NEVER TURN BLACK!: A Brief History of the Hyperstimulated Human Corpse, Dr. John Troyer, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath

• Mike Jay on Mescaline & Art, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• Morbid Ingenuity: American Autodecapitants with Writer Robert Damon Schneck

• Behold!!! The Protong – The Spectacularly Misguided Sculpture of Stanislaw Szukalski: An Illustrated Lecture and Appreciation by Sculptor and Anatomical Artist Eleanor Crook

• This Party's Dead: A Journey to Seven Death Festivals by Writer Erica Buist, author of “This Party’s Dead"

• Books Bound in Human Skin and Researching the Weird: Writing, Publishing, and Death Positivity in the Time of COVID-19: A Live Conversation with Authors Megan Rosenbloom and Colin Dickey

• The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Religion, and the Invention of the Self with Richard Sugg

• The Legacy of New Thought: From Phineas Quimby to Gwyneth Paltrow with Tara Isabella Burton, Author of "Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World”

• Shoot that Poison Arrow: St Sebastian and the Making of a Gay Icon by Eric Huang

• Six Centuries of Sex and Satanism: An Illustrated Lecture with English author Gavin Baddeley

• The Apple of the Eye: Talismans of Early Modern Love Magic by Dr. Alexander Cummins

• The History of Perverse Sex by Historian Julie Peakman, Part of the Viktor Wynd Morbid Anatomy Residency

• Privately Published: A Descent Into Early 20th Century Mail Order Erotica, Lecture and Show and Tell with Author Colin Dickey

• The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World with David Jaher

• Witch Hunting Old & New: An Illustrated Lecture by Ron Hutton

• Animals as Mediators Between the Worlds of the Living and the Dead, An Illustrated Lecture by Dr. Parm von Oheimb (Schemenkabinett)

• Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Disease, by Dr James Kennaway

• Messages from the Dead: A Survey of Cemetery Symbolism with Writer and Cemetery Tour Guide Allison C. Meier

• The Death and Resurrection Show: From Shaman to Superstar, A Lecture with Dr Rogan Taylor, University of Liverpool

• Otherwise Inexplicable: An Inquiry on Auto-Erotic Asphyxia, by Author Robert Damon Schneck

• The Cult of Death and the Maiden: Secret Rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries: A Journey to the Ancient Underworld with Surprising Statues and Psychedelics by Sculptor Eleanor Crook

• Satanism and Magic in the Age of the Moulin Rouge: An Illustrated Lecture with Author Tara Isabella Burton

• From Spiritualism to Saucers: UFO Contactee Culture, Mediumship, and the Women Who Made Contact with the Beyond, by Author Colin Dickey

• Unboxing an Antique Ghost Show (Plus an Illustrated History of Spookological Fakery for Fun and Profit): A Show and Tell with Author and Antiquarian Tony Wolf

• The X-Ray Audio Project: The Incredible Story of Bootleg Technology, Cold War Culture and Human Endeavor with Musician and Author Stephen Coates

• Pleased To Eat You: Culinary Cannibalism, Death and Cake, with The Conjurer's Kitchen's Annabel de Vetten

• Speaking with the Dead in Early America, by Erik R. Seeman, Professor and Chair, History Department, University at Buffalo

• Master and Servant: Apprenticeship and Love in Renaissance-Baroque Art, by Foreign Correspondent Eric Huang

• Brooklyn Esoteric Rarities: A Conversation, Virtual Tour and Show and Tell with Collector and Gallerist Stephen Romano

• Technologies of the Human Corpse: The Book Tour by John Troyer, Author and Director of the Centre for the Death and Society

• A Brief History of the Jewish Taste for Horror by Jewish Studies Scholar Ilaria Briata

• The Art of Anatomy: A Day-Long Symposium to Celebrate the Release of the book Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy

• Why We Love conic Corpses with Mortician and Order of the Good Death founder Caitlin Doughty

• Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science with Professor Alicia Puglionesi

• Maesters, Greyscale, and Milk of the Poppy: Medicine in ‘Game of Thrones’ with Rare Book Librarian Elisabeth Brander

• Experimenting with Death: An Introduction to Terror Management Theory for the Age of Covid by Behavioral Data Scientist Michael Johns

• Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment, with Renowned True Crime Writer Harold Schechter

• Reclaiming the Imagination: Creativity as a Form of Knowledge with Dr Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters

• Victorian Taxidermist, Explorer, and Great British Eccentric Charles Waterton by Taxidermy Collector and Historian Dr Pat Morris

  Ode to Kraftwerk: A Multimedia Presentation by Musician and Writer Stephen Vesecky

• Recorded Lecture: Victorian Display in the 21st Century: Renovating the Glass Flowers Exhibit at Harvard University with Collection Manager Jennifer Brown

• Live Exotic Pheasant Taxidermy Demonstration with Divya Anantharaman from Gotham Taxidermy

  Black on Black: An Illustrated Lecture by Leila Taylor, author of Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul

• Investigating the Supernatural: Scientific Quests to Colonize Hysterical Women and Psychic Mediums with Asti Hustvedt, author of Medical Muses

• Morbid Curiosity: Andreas Vesalius, Frederik Ruysch and the Early Modern Roots of von Hagens’ and Hirst’s Anatomical Displays, an Illustrated Zoom Lecture by David R Castillo

• Hannibal Lecter: Book Collector, with Elisabeth Brander, Rare Book Librarian at Washington University

• Walter Potter: The Man Who Married Kittens and Four Other Short Films - A Virtual Screening and Q and A With Director Ronni Thomas

• Lecture and Show and Tell: Walter Potter and His Museum of Extraordinary Taxidermy with Potter Author and Collector Dr Pat Morris

• Gothic Queer Culture with Professor Laura Westengard

• Cursed Gemstones: Legend and History, An Illustrated Lecture by Master Jeweler and Art Historian Karen Bachmann

• Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo and Memorialisation During a Pandemic: An Illustrated Lecture by Dr. John Troyer

• Queer Anatomies: Anatomical Illustration, Perverse Desire and the Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet with Medical Historian Michael Sappol

• You Cannot Kill What is Already Dead: Evan Michelson with an Illustrated Ode to Goth

• Women Who Bite: Chastity Belts, Castration Anxiety and Feminism with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann

• "The Crusade Against Magical Thinking," by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair Presented at Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis

• Carving Nature at its Joints: on The Philosophy of Collecting and Classifying by Dr Stephen Asma

• The Mysterious Pre-Hispanic Carved Skulls of Mexico's La Casa del Mendrugo: A Videotaped Lecture and Virtual Tour by Museum Founder José Ramón Lozano

• Magical Medicine: A Brief History of the Art of Healing by Invoking Supernatural Forces by Clifford Hartleigh Low

• The Devil Drives my Hand: Syphilis and the Price of Genius by Artist Eleanor Crook

• Anatomical Venus at the Fairground: Sex Education, Public Health, and the Anatomized Female Body by Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein

• Reproducing Bodies: Collecting and Exhibiting Pregnancy, Contraception, and Abortion by Dr. Manon Parry of the University of Amsterdam

• Case Histories of 19th Century Hermaphrodites, by Geertje Mak

• Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, by Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma, curator at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden

• 19th Century Gravestone Iconography as Seen at Brooklyn's Historic Green-Wood Cemetery by Writer and Official Tour Guide L. J. Lindhurst

• The False Atrium: Mirrors, Mourning and Vampires by Colin Dickey

• Maria Sabina: Shaman, Curandera, Visionary Poet by Mexican poet and author Homero Aridjis

• A Brief History of Professional Mourners by Karen Bachmann

• Walter Potter Panel Discussion at the Adirondacks Experience with Ronni Thomas, Evan Michelson, Carol Holzner and Joanna Ebenstein

• Victorian Martians by Marc Harztman, author of American Sideshow

• "Haunted:" An Immersive Journey Through the Ghost Trains and Haunted Houses of the Northeast by photographer Lisa Kereszi

• Investigating the Supernatural: Scientific Quests to Colonize Hysterical Women and Psychic Mediums by Asti Hustvedt, author of Medical Muses

• Sacred Retablos of the Latin World, a Lecture and Show and Tell by Scholar/Collector Deborah Dwyer

• A Night of Folk Necromancy with Dr. Alexander Cummins, Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and Mallorie Vaudoise

• Placebos, Nocebos and Voodoo Medicine by neurology professor Mark W Green MD, FAAN

• Satan The Prophet: A History of Modern Satanism by Italian Scholar Massimo Introvigne

• Remedios Varo: Bruja with a Brush by author and curator Pam Grossman

• Female Freaks: Sex, Science & Sideshow by sideshow performer Ilise Carter

• In Heaven: On the Meaning of Magic in the Works of David Lynch by Stef Black

• The Doors of Platonic Perception by philosophy professor Dr James Rowe

Free Content

• Rare Medical Books with Elisabeth Brander, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Head of Rare Books at the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

• The Black Indians of New Orleans Mardi Gras: Art, Spectacle, and Spirituality as Resistance, A Virtual Tour of an Exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branley, Paris

• Over the Psychic Radio: Video-Recording of a Live, Online Symposium Dedicated to Artist and Occultist Grant Wallace, Produced in Partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery

• Silent Languages and Images that Speak with Educator, Artist and Scholar Dr Sasha Chaitow

• Interview with Our New Teacher: Greek-Based Educator, Artist and Scholar Dr Sasha Chaitow

• Video of The Annual National Festival of Masked Dancers and Interview with Founder, Coscomatepec, Mexico, 2021

• Photos from The First Annual National Festival of Masked Dancers, Coscomatepec, Mexico

• Imagination as Sixth-Sense: A Conversation between Actor Paul Giamatti and Philosopher Dr Stephen Asma

• Enheduanna: The World's First Named Author: From The BBC

• The Witch Craze in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Teo Ruiz, Professor of History at UCLA

• A Three-Faced Trinity at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya: From the Blog of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

• Spare Parts: A Five-Hundred Year History of Transplant Surgery by Cultural Historian and Award-Winning Author Dr. Paul Craddock

• Ashes to Ashes: Turning the Dead into Soil in Washington State

• A Virtual Tour of Eyes Gallery, Philadelphia

• Private Video Tour of The Exhibition Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art by Curator Robert Cozzolino

• "You Could Die At Any Age": a Special Morbid Anatomy Library Event with Puerto Rican Artist Raquel Albarran

• How Leonardo Figured Out the Beauty of Anatomy: Review of Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life, National Museum of Scotland through October 30, The Guardian

• Rosa Bonheur: Master Painter, Pioneering Feminist, and 19th-Century Gender-Bending Superstar, by Medical Artist Marie Dauenheimer

• A Narco-Monkey Was Killed During a Shootout and Now Has His Own Narcocorrido: Now in from Vice

• Gaia: Then and Now: A Lecture Series Using a Jungian, Mythopoetic Lens to Look at Climate Change

• Cat Funeral as a Six of Spades AND a Brand New Cartomancy-Themed Patreon Tier!

• Underworld Tales: A Transit Museum and Morbid Anatomy Variety Show

• Gendering the Living Machine: A Psycho-Cultural, Techno-Historical Exploration with Artist and Educator Jason Lahman

• Video-Recorded Virtual Tour of the Morbid Anatomy Library with Founder Joanna Ebenstein and Programming Director Laetitia Barbier

• “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art”: An Exhibition Review by Writer and Educator Tony Wolf

• Merry Christmas with Jean Paul Gaultier Virgins (Madonna) Series, The Brooklyn Museum: Morbid Anatomy Blog Flashback

• San Miguel and the Devil and the Ambiguity of Good and Evil

• Cultural History of Robots: Myth to Modernity: an Illustrated Lecture with Jason Lahman, Formerly of San Francisco State University

• A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey: An Illustrated Lecture by Indie Rock Musician and Author Jonathan Meiburg

• Visualizing Pain, Death, and the Afterlife Through Transformative Portraits: Guest Post by Virgil Wong, Artist, Technologist, and Founder of Medical Avatar

• Beauty, Power, & Immortality: The Witch's Quest in Hollywood Cinema: an Illustrated Lecture by Heather Greene

• Pilgrimage to the Bascilica of The Virgin of Guadalupe and Holy Site Souvenirs

• Beauty Memory Unity: Proportion and the Animation of Matter, A Live, Online Lecture with Architect and Educator Steve Bass

• The God That Isn't There: A Video by Artist Diego López

• The Mythology of Everest as Memento Mori, by Artist, Runner and Herbalist Heather Compton

• Enigmatic Poster Report

• Happy Valentine's Day! Thematically apt entertainment and edification to celebrate this Valentine's Day,

• Syncretism, Sex and Death at Lima's Fabulous Museo Larco

• Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers and Executions: An Illustrated Lecture and Book Talk by Author K Krombie

• Two Existentialist Theories of Death with Dr. Kiki Berk, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern New Hampshire University

• Exhibition Alert: Lifelike Painted Statues Reanimate Museum Many Left for Dead

• Ghosts, Ritualists, and the Undead: The Witch in American Horror with Heather Greene, author of "Lights Camera Witchcraft”

• Marisa Tomei Gets Morbid: The Academy Award Winning Actress Visits the Morbid Anatomy Library in December's "New Yorker" Magazine

• Shrine to Mexican Folk Saint Santa Muerte (Saint or Holy Death), Zocalo, Mexico City

• The Mysterious Mayan Candlesticks of Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico

• The Desire to Acquire: A Psychological Profile of the Serious Collector: A Video Recorded Panel Discussion Hosted by Apex Art

• On Birth Defects & Superstition: A New Video from Amsterdam's Museum Vrolik

• Macario: A Classic Mexican Day of the Dead Film from 1960

• Living Dolls: Hysterics, Androids, Animated Corpses and Sex Dolls: an Illustrated Lecture with Asti Hustvedt, editor of Zone Book's “Decadent Reader”

• Silbatos de Barro (Clay Whistles), A Mayan Tradition for Day of the Dead

• The MHDL (Music, Healing and Deep Listening) Collective, by Musician and Morbid Anatomy Educator Mikey Kirkpatrick

• Video Recording of The Memoria Symposium, Exploring Artistic Innovations in Memorial and Memento Mori Ritual

• Charles and Rey Eames' Ode to Day of the Dead, by Cristina Marcelo

• Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural with Author and Historian Marc Hartzman

• The Man Who Married Kittens: Video-recording of a Screening and Director Q and A, with Apex Art

• Jungian Psychoanalysis, Image and Imagination by Jungian Analyst Michael Vannoy Adams

• Exhibition Alert: The Nature of the Beast: Meditations on Life, Death, and the Art of Collecting

• Video-Recording of a Panel Discussion on The Art of Collecting Taxidermy and Natural History with Curator JD Powe, Artist Mark Dion, Evan Michelson of TV's Oddities and the East Village’s iconic Obscura Antiques, and Collectors Adam Baschian and Sabrina Hansen

• The Nature of the Beast: Meditations on Life, Death, and the Art of Collecting: Video Taped Exhibition Tour by Curator J. D. Powe

• Kali in Sculpture and Art, from The Horniman Museum & Gardens

• Video Taped Lecture: Michael Sappol: Self Portrait in 100 Anatomical Objects and Subjects, Lecture for SVA, 2019

• Hovius' Hunchback: A New Video from Amsterdam's Museum Vrolik

• Baroque Death: Portraits of Crowned Nuns in Colombia: Art Collection of the Bank of the Republic

• Anatomical Atlas: A New Video from Amsterdam's Museum Vrolik

• Civilization (Megaplex): Video Art by Marco Brambilla

• Amsterdam's Excellent Museum Vrolik: Exclusive Tours Now on YouTube!

• Video-Recording of Best Friends Forever: The Greatest Collection of Taxidermy Dogs on Earth: Illustrated Lecture, Book Launch and Show and Tell with J.D. Powe

• Mr Joseph Maclise and the Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet: One Object, by Medical Historian Michael Sappol, in the British Art Studies Journal

• Meet the Nun who Wants You to Remember You Will Die: Contemplating Death and Memento Mori in the New York Times, with a Shout Out to Morbid Anatomy

• Make Your Own Memento Mori Class Student Gallery

• Mel Gordon on the Badkhn (A Traditional Jewish Insult Artist) and the Birth of Jewish Humor

• The Anatomical Models of Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux, by Bart Grob, Curator for Bio Medical Collections of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Museum, Leiden

• Spectacles of the Body: Final Article of a Three Part Series on Roman physician Galen and His World, by Rachel Herschman of The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

• Shapeshifting Witches, Black Magic Catholica, Possessed Dolls, and Cursed Paintings: Highlights of the Museo Paranormal in Mérida, Mexico

• The Museum of The Paranormal in Mérida, Mexico: A Photo Essay and Interview with Founder and Proprietor Jorge Moreno Gonzaléz

• Asclepius and Dreams: Part Two of a Three Part Series on Roman physician Galen and His World, by Rachel Herschman of The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

• Introducing Galen: Part One of a Three Part Series on Roman physician Galen and His World, by Rachel Herschman of The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

• In Celebration of Mel Gordon on his Yarzheit (Yiddish for "Anniversary of Someone's Death")

• For Valentine's Day: Morbid Anatomy: A Love Story, by Tamara Joy of Krammpstein

• The Carrie Song: Inspired by the Classic 1976 Horror Film Carrie, Sung and Written by the Incredible Comic Songwriter and Performer Angela Di Carlo

• Life, Death and The Pandemic from a Shamanistic Perspective: Interview with Christina Pratt, Author of the Encyclopedia of Shamanism

• Science and Visual Culture, "Deceiving in a Productive Way," and Ecology and the Coronavirus: A Recorded Interview with Morbid Anatomy Beloved Artist Mark Dion

• Fear, Suffering and Alienation in the Art of Edvard Munch, Via The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism

• Interview with Karen Bachmann: Morbid Anatomy Lecturer, Anatomical Jewelry Maker and Teacher of Victorian Hair Art

• Interview with Megan Rosenbloom, Author of "Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin"

• Married in a Cemetery: The Black Wedding, Jewish Popular Religion and Attempts to Propitiate the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

• The Mysterious Pre-Hispanic Carved Skulls of Mexico's La Casa del Mendrugo: A Videotaped Lecture and Virtual Tour

• ‘Saint Corona, Patron Saint of Pandemics!’ by foreign correspondent Eric Huang

• Interview with Dr John Troyer about "Technologies of the Corpse," Bodies on Display, Cultural Attitudes Towards Death, and Public Health in Pandemics

• Shoot that Poison Arrow: Saint Sebastian and the Plague by foreign correspondent Eric Huang

• Magical Medicine: A Brief History of the Art of Healing by Invoking Supernatural Forces: A Videotaped Lecture by Clifford Hartleigh Low

• Technicolor “Supein Kaze”: A Bright Eye on Japan and its Spanish Flu Safety Posters

• San Miguel del Milagro: The Plague Vanquishing Holy Spring of Mexico

• Witches Caves and Healing Springs: White and Black Magic on My Trip to Mexico's Sierra Norte

• Khahil Gibran on Death, Shared by Edson Mendez

• Santo Niño Cieguito or The Holy Blind Child: Folk Saint of Puebla, Mexico

• The New Wellcome History of Medicine Galleries at London's Science Museum: An Interview with Natasha McEnroe, Keeper of Medicine

• Automatons, Alchemy, Vanitas and Jewels: Marvels and Wunderkammers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Excellent Exhibition Alert: Joe Coleman and The Shadow Self at Andrew Edlin Gallery

• A Fond, Bittersweet Farewell to Obscura Antiques and Oddities, by Co-Founder Evan Michelson

• Faith, Hope and Fear: Eleanor Crook’s New Sculpture Santa Medicina: Morbid Anatomy in Conversation with Artist Eleanor Crook

• For the First Meteorological Day of Winter: The Virgin of the Dry Tree, Petrus Christus, ca. 1465

• Taxidermy as a Cultural Object: Notes on Preservation, Death and Art, An Essay and Photo Documentary by Artist and Professor Montse Morcate

• Santa Muerte Procession and Festival in Mérida, Mexico: Video (!) and Photos by Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein

• Sublimi Anatomie: A New Exhibition Exploring Art and Anatomy Exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

• Traditions of Death and Burial: Book Review by Julia O'Connell

• The Infamous Bohemian Grove: A New Donation to the Morbid Anatomy Library

• New Book on Fabulous Sedlec Ossuary

• "Looking At Death": A Conversation With Curator and Writer Barbara Norfleet by Cristina Marcelo

• Audio Recording of Book Talk for Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration, by Mallorie Vaudoise

• Epic Relics, "Vera Effigies," Wonder Working Madonnas, and Gruesome Crucifixions: A Virtual Visit to Prague's Fabulous Loreto Shrine

• An Official Guide for Demon Hunters: Helpful Advice from Theologians and Witch-Hunters, by Stephen T. Asma, PhD

• The Gustavo Jirón Latapiat Anatomical Institute in Chile

• Mournful Still-Lives: A Donation of Victorian Funerary Arrangements Photograph by Artist Lisa Kereszi

• Rivers of Life or Faiths of Man in All Lands: A Chart of All Religions in History and their Symbolic Continuities, Circa 1900

• Frightening Fragments: The Representation of the Corpse in Baroque Sculpture: Illustrated Article by Art Historian Regina Deckers

Private Collections Tours for $10/mo and Above Members

• Private Tour of The Museum of Fear and Wonder: An Archive of Fantastic Craft on the Canadian Prairies with Founders Brendan Griebel and Jude Griebel

• Virtual House Tour of Dr Pat Morris, Taxidermy Authority and Walter Potter Collector

• Video Recording of Members-Only Virtual House Tour and Meet and Greet with Evan Michelson, Antique Dealer, Co-Star of TV’s Oddities and Morbid Anatomy Scholar-in-Residence

• Video Recording of Members Only Private BACKSTAGE Tour and Meet and Greet with Anatomist Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator of Surgeons’ Hall, the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

• Videorecording of a Private Tour and Meet and Greet with Anatomist Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator of Surgeons’ Hall, the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, for our $10/mo and Above Members!

• Videorecorded Private Tour of The Museum Vrolik: Amsterdam’s Anatomy and Pathology Museum, A Special Treat for Our 10$/Month and Above Members

Interviews and Virtual Tours

• The Black Indians of New Orleans Mardi Gras: Art, Spectacle, and Spirituality as Resistance, A Virtual Tour of an Exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branley, Paris

• Video of The Annual National Festival of Masked Dancers and Interview with Founder, Coscomatepec, Mexico, 2021

• A Day of the Dead Virtual Wander Through Merida, Mexico's Cementerio General

• Video Recording of a Private Tour of the Musée Fragonard de l'École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort of Paris France, with The Vesalius Trust

• A Visit to La Paz Bolivia's Coca Museum

• A Virtual Visit to Paris' Famed Père-Lachaise Cemetery

• Interview with Our New Teacher: Greek-Based Educator, Artist and Scholar Dr Sasha Chaitow

• Amsterdam's Vrolik Museum Anatomy Story Videos: Graveyards & Curiosities

• A Virtual Tour of Eyes Gallery, Philadelphia

• Private Video Tour of The Exhibition Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art by Curator Robert Cozzolino

• Amsterdam's Vrolik Museum Anatomy Story Videos: On Birth Defects & Superstition

• Virtual Tour of the Morbid Anatomy Library with Founder Joanna Ebenstein and Programming Director Laetitia Barbier

• The Nature of the Beast: Meditations on Life, Death, and the Art of Collecting: Video Taped Exhibition Tour by Curator J. D. Powe

• Interview with Richard Harris: Collector of Art and Death

• Virtual Tour of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and its Anatomical Theatre

• A Virtual Visit to the Museo Arqueológico de Campeche, Fuerte de San Miguel, Mexico

• Virtual Tour of Pomuch Cemetery, Mexico, Site of the Day of the Dead "Brushing of the Bones"

• Catholica and Folk Religion in Campeche, Mexico: A Virtual Photo Tour

• A Virtual Visit to Pisa's Museum of Human Anatomy, the Museo di Anatomia Umana “Filippo Civinini"

• Singapore's Haw Par Villa and its "Ten Courts of Hell," and Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple: A Virtual Tour by Photographer and Professor Lisa Kereszi

• A Virtual Tour of the Musée de la Médecine, Brussels, Belgium

• Virtual Tour of the Museum of Mexican Medicine (Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina) in Mexico City

• A Virtual Visit to The Tzompantli, or Skull Walls, of Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, MexicoA Virtual Tour or an 18th Century Private Natural History Cabinet Turned Early Museum: The Spallanzani Museum, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Guest Post by Alessandro Molinengo of Nautilus Antiques, with Images by Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein

• Shamans, Amulets, Santa Muerte, Ritual Costumes, Mosaic Skulls, Magical Objects and Kachina Dolls: A Trip to Leiden's Museum Volkenkunde

• A Virtual Visit to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall

• A Virtual Tour of the Paris' MévA -Musée de l’Ecole Vétérinaire de Maisons Alfort (Formerly Known as the Musée Fragonard), by Surgeon Andrew Zbar with Photos by Joanna Ebenstein

• Baroque Ossuaries, Mummified Saints, Flayed Martyrs and Voluptuous Cemeteries: A Virtual Visit to Milan, Italy

• Morbid Curiosity: Interview with Coltan Scrivner of Institute for Mind and Biology at The University of Chicago

• Recorded Audio Interview with Collector, Rogue Museologist, Writer and Impresario Viktor Wynd

• Recorded Interview with Margee Kerr, Author of Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear

• Recorded Interview with Lee Unkrich, Academy Award Winning Director of Pixar's CocoInterview with Dr Stephen Asma on Art, Science, Myth and His New Instructional YouTube Channel Monsterology

• Interview with Dr Pat Morris, Collector and Scholar of Eccentric Victorian Taxidermist Walter Potter

• Interview with Wax Artist and Morbid Anatomy Vendor Heather O’Shaughnessy

• Life, Death and The Pandemic from a Shamanistic Perspective: Interview with Christina Pratt, Author of the Encyclopedia of Shamanism

• Science and Visual Culture, "Deceiving in a Productive Way," and Ecology and the Coronavirus: A Recorded Interview with Morbid Anatomy Beloved Artist Mark Dion

• Interview with Karen Bachmann: Morbid Anatomy Lecturer, Anatomical Jewelry Maker and Teacher of Victorian Hair Art

• Interview with Megan Rosenbloom, Author of "Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin"

• Interview with Cultural Historian Celeste Olalquiaga, Author of "The Artificial Kingdom"

• Interview with Dr John Troyer about "Technologies of the Corpse," Bodies on Display, Cultural Attitudes Towards Death, and Public Health in Pandemics

• Podcast from the Waxwork Workbench: Repairing 19th Century Ziegler Embryonic Brain Models at The University of Ghent

• The Fabulous Museum Amparo of Puebla, Mexico: A Virtual Tour

• Mérida's Cemeterio General and Hanal Pixán, The Mayan Day of the Dead: A Virtual Tour

• Faith, Hope and Fear: Eleanor Crook’s New Sculpture Santa Medicina: Morbid Anatomy in Conversation with Artist Eleanor Crook

• A Virtual Visit to the Semmelweis Medical Museum, Budapest

• Sublimi Anatomie: A New Exhibition Exploring Art and Anatomy Exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

• Epic Relics, "Vera Effigies," Wonder Working Madonnas, and Gruesome Crucifixions: A Virtual Visit to Prague's Fabulous Loreto Shrine

• A Virtual Tour of Philadelphia's Eye's Gallery of International Folk Art

• A Virtual Visit to the Cementerio General de Almudena of Cusco, Peru

Audio Recordings of Lectures & Tours

• The Carrie Song: Inspired by the Classic 1976 Horror Film Carrie, Sung and Written by the Incredible Comic Songwriter and Performer Angela Di Carlo

• Money Snakes, Revenge Ghosts & Black Market Body Parts: Recorded Talk and Virtual Tour of Poster House's Ghanian Film Poster Exhibition with Curator Angelina Lippert

• Now and at the Hour of Our Death: The Sorrowful Mother in Italy and Italian-American Communities by Mallorie Vaudoise

• The Culture and Commerce of Victorian Mourning: A Recorded Conversation Between Evan Michelson of TV's "Oddities" and Hair Art Collector Jennifer Berman

• Heaven as a Place on Earth: Reflections on the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come: Audio Recording of Lecture by Will Baker

• A Cultural History of Mescaline: Recorded Lecture by Mike Jay

• Babel Rousers: The 900-year Quest to Build a Better Language by Arika Okrent

• Book Talk for Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise

• Fashion, Gender and the Feline Divine by Jo Weldon, Author of Fierce, A History of Leopard Print

• Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove by Jon Ronson, This American Life contributor and author of The Psychopath Test

• El Helicoide: From Mall to Prison by Celeste Olalquiaga, author of The Artificial Kingdom and Megalopolis

• The Alchemical Wedding, Or, How They Lived Happily Ever After by Alchemist Brian Cotnoir

• Nature Perfected: The Dream of the Artificial Woman by Asti Hustvedt, Author of Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

• Grand Guignol: Theater of Fear and Terror by Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic

• Music From Elsewhere, a concert and lecture featuring music of 'non-human people" by Fortean and musician Doug Skinner

• A Brief History of Sex Magic by Italian sociologist and author Massimo Introvigne

• NSK State: Oscillations of Utopia by NSK State Diplomat Charles Lewis

Illustrated Essays by Guest Writers

• A Review of the Field Museum’s "Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery" Exhibit by Taylor Rhodes

• Climbing for the Fallen: An Ethnographic Account of the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb by Renee Cyr

• How Not To Attend a Goat Sacrifice in Benin by Journalist Ann Seymour Vergara

• Ashes to Ashes: Turning the Dead into Soil in Washington State by Tricia Romano

• The Power of Vril in C. 1900 Occulture and Pop-Culture by Author and Antiquarian Tony Wolf

• Rosa Bonheur: Master Painter, Pioneering Feminist, and 19th-Century Gender-Bending Superstar by Medical Artist Marie Dauenheimer

• Who was Bob Flanagan and What did He Mean to Me? by Poet and Tarot Reader Mark Pappler

• Visualizing Pain, Death, and the Afterlife Through Transformative Portraits by Virgil Wong, Artist, Technologist, and Founder of Medical Avatar

• The Mythology of Everest as Memento Mori by Artist, Runner and Herbalist Heather Compton

• Dark Tourism Shines Bright in Lithuania Thirty Years After Independence by Journalist Ann Seymour Vergara

• Euthanatoria: A Notional History of Good Death Places by Author and Antiquarian Tony Wolf

• The MHDL (Music, Healing and Deep Listening) Collective, by Musician and Morbid Anatomy Educator Mikey Kirkpatrick

• Charles and Rey Eames' Ode to Day of the Dead, by Cristina Marcelo

• Mr Joseph Maclise and the Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet: One Object, by Medical Historian Michael Sappol, in the British Art Studies Journal

• Hurufism: A Calculable Approach to the Human Body: A Guest Post by Turkish Artist Balım İslamoğlu

• Meet the Nun who Wants You to Remember You Will Die: Contemplating Death and Memento Mori in the New York Times, with a Shout Out to Morbid Anatomy

• Mel Gordon on the Badkhn (A Traditional Jewish Insult Artist) and the Birth of Jewish Humor

• The Anatomical Models of Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux, by Bart Grob, Curator for Bio Medical Collections of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Museum, Leiden

• Spectacles of the Body: Final Article of a Three Part Series on Roman physician Galen and His World, by Rachel Herschman of The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

• Asclepius and Dreams: Part Two of a Three Part Series on Roman physician Galen and His World, by Rachel Herschman of The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

• Introducing Galen: Part One of a Three Part Series on Roman physician Galen and His World, by Rachel Herschman of The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

• Satanic Feminism Reading Group, Led by Morbid Anatomy Community Member Ravi Devpriya Kaur

• The Strange Case of the Rhode Island Vampire: A Guest Post by Author Marc Hartzman

• For Valentine's Day: Morbid Anatomy: A Love Story, by Tamara Joy of Krammpstein

• Tarantism in Galatina, South of Italy: A Guest Post by Alessandro Molinengo of Nautilus Antiques

• Playing Dead: The History and Mystery of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board,” by Author/Antiquarian Tony Wolf

• In the Shadow of Vesalius : A Guest Post on a New Book on the Life and Work of Revolutionary Anatomist of Andreas Vesalius, by Pascale Pollier

• “Laugh in the Face of Death”: Inside the Whitechapel Club of Chicago (1888-’94), by Author/Antiquarian Tony Wolf

• How to Speak with the Dead and Other Things to Know Just in Time for Halloween by Marc Hartzman

• The Changing Face of Death: A Countercultural Perspective: By Author/Antiquarian Tony Wolf

• Meet the Victorian Martians, from Marc Hartzman's New Publication The Big Book of MarsIt's a Sin: Michelango's Sistine Chapel Frescoes by Foreign Correspondent Eric Huang

• Life, Death, And All That Ever Was, Is, or Will Be: A Musical Meditation on the Buddhist Concept of Sunyata by Mikey Kirkpatrick

• Union of the Snake: Life, Death, and the Healing Arts by foreign correspondent Eric Huang

• Fear, Suffering and Alienation in the Art of Edvard Munch, Via The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism

• ‘Saint Corona, Patron Saint of Pandemics!’

• Death as Muse: The Dark Poetry of Joe Frank, by Writer and Musician Stephen Vesecky

• Shoot that Poison Arrow: Saint Sebastian and the Plague, by foreign correspondent Eric Huang

• My Grandfather the Spirit Doctor & Me: On Medicine, Storytelling, Film and the Radio, by Filmmaker and Visual Artist Chiara Ambrosio

• Khahil Gibran on Death, Shared by Edson Mendez

• Tarantism: Dance, Possession and Exorcism in Southern Italy, by Filmmaker and Visual Artist Chiara Ambrosio

• The Strange Posthumous Adventures of Louis XIV’s Heart, by Marc Hartzman, author of "American Sideshow"

• Certosa Monumental Cemetery of Bologna, Italy: A Guest Post by Eleanor Crook

• A Fond, Bitterwsweet Farewell to Obscura Antiques and Oddities, by Co-Founder Evan Michelson

• El Mercado Sonora: A Short Film about Mexico City's Traditional Healer’s Market Introduced by its Director, Dr. Michael Scott Van Wagenen

• Taxidermy as a Cultural Object: Notes on Preservation, Death and Art, An Essay and Photo Documentary by Artist and Professor Montse Morcate

• The Brushing of the Bones: Guest Post by Evan Michelson of Obscura Antiques

• Lord Kingsborough's Folly, or The Mayans and the Lost Tribes of Israel: A Guest Post by Cooper Hewitt Design Librarian Elizabeth Broman

• Twice is Nice: Double Burial Around the World by Daisy Tainton

• Traditions of Death and Burial: Book Review by Julia O'Connell

• The Underworld Meets the Earth: A Visit to the Devils Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania: Guest Post by Writer Amanda Kotch

• The Infamous Bohemian Grove: A New Donation to the Morbid Anatomy Library by  Anthony Marinese

• "Looking At Death": A Conversation With Curator and Writer Barbara Norfleet by Cristina Marcelo

• New Book on Fabulous Sedlec Ossuary

• Basil and Beheading: An Illustrated Essay by Eric Huang

• An Official Guide for Demon Hunters: Helpful Advice from Theologians and Witch-Hunters, by Stephen T. Asma, PhD

• The Gustavo Jirón Latapiat Anatomical Institute in Chile, by Álvaro Cabello

• The Uncanny, excerpt from High Weirdness: Drugs, Visions, and Esoterica in the Seventies, by Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis

• Faux Crime by Harold Schechter, true crime writer, author of The Whole Death Catalog

• “Only a Flesh Wound!” Hyperbolic Stoicism in Military Surgery at Trafalgar and Waterloo, by medical historian James Kennaway

• Frightening Fragments: The Representation of the Corpse in Baroque Sculpture by art historian Regina Deckers

• Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, and the Anatomical Still Lives by medical illustrator Marie Dauenheimer, MA, CMI

• The Not-Quite-Lost Art of Bookbinding with Human Skin by Marc Hartzman, author of American Sideshow

• The Making of the Miniature Morbid Musée, An Illustrated Ode by filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz

• The Cold War Gothicism of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, by professor Laura Westengard

• Ivory Ladies and Their Playful Anatomy by art historian Cali Buckley

• What Do the Living Mean When We Say We’re in Purgatory? by Elizabeth Harper, "All The Saints You Should Know"

• The Spirit Houses of Thailand by writer Jane Rose

• In a Lover’s Eye by hair artist, jeweler and art historian Karen Bachman

Exhibition Reviews

• How Leonardo Figured Out the Beauty of Anatomy: Review of Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life, National Museum of Scotland

• The Guardian“Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art”: An Exhibition Review by Writer and Educator Tony Wolf

• Automatons, Alchemy, Vanitas and Jewels: Marvels and Wunderkammers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Excellent Exhibition Alert: Joe Coleman and The Shadow Self at Andrew Edlin Gallery

Illustrated Essays by Morbid Anatomy
Founder and creative director Joanna Ebenstein

• The Reliquary Effigy or Corpus Sanctus of Santa Celeste, Patron Saint of Fiancées, in the Church of Santa Teresa la Nueva, Mexico City

• Burial Figure from Ancient Egypt, via The Metropolitan of Art

• Photos from The First Annual National Festival of Masked Dancers, Coscomatepec, Mexico

• Memento Mori and Magic Religion at Zurich's Landesmuseum Baroque Exhibition

• Hans Holbein the Younger's The Dead Christ in the Tomb

• Korean Exorcism Rite, via the National Folk Museum of Korea's Website

• A Pilgrimage to See The Black Madonna of Einsiedeln, Switzerland

• The Mysteries of Creativity: Nick Cave, Lois Duncan, and Morbid Anatomy Classes

• "The Girl and Death," A Series of Prints by August Brömse, 1902

• Possesion Podcast by Kristian Leth for UnFictional

• The Incredible, Phantasmagoric Wandjina Figures of Australia

• A Three-Faced Trinity at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya: From the Blog of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

• Cuba in Images by Photographer Elaine Lang

• The Fanciful, Elegant, and Sometimes Macabre Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Secession)

• "AlmAislada"(Isolated Soul) Bahia, Brazil: A Beautiful Body of Work by Chilean Photographer Tamara Merino

• Yucatan legends about Aluxes (Man-Made, Gnome Like Beings): From Top Yucatan Magazine

• Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, Illustrated by Carlo Farneti, 1935

• A Visit to The Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City

• Silbatos de Barro (Clay Whistles), A Mayan Tradition for Day of the Dead

• A Word on Grave Practices, Funerary Practices, and "Houses of the Dead" in Yucatán, Mexico

• Kali in Sculpture and Art, from The Horniman Museum & Gardens

• Baroque Death: Portraits of Crowned Nuns in Colombia: Art Collection of the Bank of the Republic

• Chronicles of the Good Death to the Holy Death in Mexico, Article from Arqueología Mexicana Magazine, 2005

• Life and Death in Naples, Italy: Making a Deal with the Spirits and A Virtual Tour in Photos

• Lucifer: Excerpt from "Guatemala's Folk Saints: Maximon/San Simon, Rey Pascual, Judas, Lucifer, and Others," by Jim Pieper

• Guatemalan Skeletal Folk Saint San Pascual Rey: Excerpt from "Guatemala's Folk Saints: Maximon/San Simon, Rey Pascual, Judas, Lucifer, and Others," by Jim Pieper

• Shapeshifting Witches, Black Magic Catholica, Possessed Dolls, and Cursed Paintings: Highlights of the Museo Paranormal in Mérida, Mexico

• The Museum of The Paranormal in Mérida, Mexico: A Photo Essay and Interview with Founder and Proprietor Jorge Moreno Gonzaléz

• Ex Votos, Saint Lucy, and Cast Off Crutches: A Virtual Visit to St Roch's Cemetery and Shrine, New Orleans

• In Celebration of Mel Gordon on his Yarzheit (Yiddish for "Anniversary of Someone's Death")

• The Virgin of Guadalupe, The Black Madonna and Santa Muerte: A Special Felíz Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Repost

• The 18th and Early 19th Century Mummies of Vác, Hungary

• Christ and the Harrowing of Hell in Art, Theology and Mystery PlaysWe Wish You a Happy Halloween with a Sculptural Set Providing A Vivid Look at a Christian Idea of Death, the Afterlife, and the In-between

• "Morbidly Curious" Individuals and Horror Fans are More Psychologically Resilient During the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Study Published in PLOS ONE Journal

• From Ancient Necropoli to Painted Skulls: The Spectacular Human Remains of Halstatt, Austria

• Retratos de Monjas Muertas, or, Portraits of Dead Nuns

• A Virtual Tour of Cimitero delle Fontanelle, Epicenter of "The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead" or "The Neapolitan Skull Cult" of Naples, Italy

• A Virtual Tour of the Phenomenal Palermo Catacombs

• Simulations of Being Buried Alive for Fun, Religion, and as a Corrective to Existential Despair

• Codex Martínez Compañón, or the Trujillo Codex: A 9 Volume Manuscript Documenting Daily and Ceremonial Life in 18th Century Peru

• Necromantic Seducers, Luciferian Encounters and Medieval Love Magic: The Fascinating History of El Libro de San Ciprian: Tesoro del Hechicero (The Book of Saint Ciprian: Sorcerer's Treasure)

• Grisly Relics of the Dead, The Penny Magazine, 1899

• Pandemic Silver Lining: Museum Curators Sharing the Strangest and Creepiest Objects from their Collections

• Married in a Cemetery: The Black Wedding, Jewish Popular Religion and Attempts to Propitiate the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

• Taxidermy at Huejotzingo, Mexico's Carnival Celebration

• Ignaz Semmelweis, Cadaverous Particles, and Paradigm Shifts: The "Savior of Mothers" and Hand-Washing in Medicine

• San Miguel del Milagro: The Plague Vanquishing Holy Spring of Mexico

• Witches Caves and Healing Springs: White and Black Magic on My Trip to Mexico's Sierra Norte

• Mummies, Carnival Costumes, and Souls in Purgatory: A Virtual Tour of the UNESCO World Heritage Exconvento de San Miguel Arcángel of Huejotzingo

• Santo Niño Cieguito or The Holy Blind Child: Folk Saint of Puebla, Mexico

• The New Wellcome History of Medicine Galleries at London's Science Museum: An Interview with Natasha McEnroe, Keeper of Medicine

• El Niño Compadrito: The Miracle Working Skeleton Saint of Cuzco, Peru

• Dissection Images from the Golden Age of Anatomy

• Earth Goddess in Christian Form: An Ode to Nuestra Señora de Valvanera

• Happy New Year--And Decade!--From Morbid Anatomy

• Personal Ossuaries and "The Brushing of the Bones": Day of the Dead in Pomoch, Mexico

• Mary Gravida, or Our Lady of Expectations: The Pregnant Virgin in Art and Beyond

• Happy New Year From Morbid Anatomy: A Brief History of The Mummers Parade, an American Homegrown Festival

• The Virgin of the Dry Tree, Petrus Christus, ca. 1465

• A Virtual Tour on the Cemeteries and Churches of Izamal, Mexico on Day of the Dead

• A Visit to Walter Potter's Museum: Cabinet of Curiosities, Lucinda Lambton, BBC, 1987

• Santa Muerte Procession and Festival in Mérida, Mexico: Video (!) and Photos

• Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria, Fantasia, Walt Disney Studios, 1941

• Happy Day of the Dead: A Traditional Cleaning of the Bones, From the Film "Birds of Passage"

• The Anatomical Venus, The Ecstatic, The Fetish and Falling in Love with Statues

• Angels Bearing Surgical Tools: Pavia, Italy's Anatomical Theatre

• The Palermo Catacombs During Day of the Dead, 1850

• An Ode to the Visual Exuberance of Christian Allegories in Art

• Syncretism, Sex and Death at Lima's Fabulous Museo Larco

• A Mysterious Kachina Doll and an Incredible Smithsonian Manuscript Filled with Hopi Ritual Costumes and Dances Drawn by Native Artists

• Macabre Ditty from The Muppet Show, Circa 1978

• St Wilgefortis, "The Bearded Saint," at Prague's Loreto Shrine and Beyond

• Science Meets Memento Mori at the First Anatomy Museum

• Anatomical New Romantic Fantasy, from Bob Fosse's All That Jazz

• Graffiti from The Museum of the Holy Inquisition, Palermo, Sicily

• The "Cuerpo Santo" or "Cuerpo Relicario" of Mexico

• The Virgin of Guadalupe, The Black Madonna and Santa Muerte: An Illustrated Meditation on Catholicism in Mexico

• Rivers of Life or Faiths of Man in All Lands: A Chart of All Religions in History and their Symbolic Continuities, Circa 1900

• Purgatory and the "The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead" or "The Neapolitan Skull Cult"

• The Enigmatic "Christus Anatomicus"

• The Paris Morgue as Tourist Attraction and the Death Mask of L'Inconnue de la Seine

• A Virtual Visit to the Museo Storico Nazionale dell'Arte Sanitaria, Rome's Medical Museum

• Enigmatic 18th Century Miniature Wax Dissectable Woman

Programming Director director Laetitia Barbier

• Prosit, Mein Freund! The Peculiar Booze Robot of the British Museum

• Noble Children and their Amulets: A Spanish Tradition

• The Mechanical Demon of Cluny Museum

• Snake Charmers and Spider temptress: The Joy of Pagan Femininity in the Belle Epoque Magazine "Le Charme"

• Gambling with Death: An Allegorical Game of Cards from the 17th Century

• “Putrefaction, My Father” - Allegory of Death in Dijon’s Fine Art Museum

• Of Bats and Wax: The Uncanny Profession of Clovis Trouille, Master of Bizarre Erotica

• Sacred Animatronics: Thai Temples' Automated Skeletons

• Spectral Eavesdropping: Sounds from Other Worlds and Times

• Mummies Dressed as Saints: The Preserved Bodies of Templo Santo Domingo, Zacatecas“Why Dying?”

• Onion Worshipers, Castration and Immortality in 1960's Paris

• Froufrou and Iron Panties: The Fetish World of Yva Richard

• What to Do If Your Friend's Dress Catches on Fire? An Ode to 19th Century Chocolate and Cigarette Cards

• Black Mass at the Thrift Store

• The Magic Calendar of Manuel Orazi: Esoteric Compendium and Fin-de-siecle Diabolical Fantasy

• Technicolor “Supein Kaze”: A Bright Eye on Japan and its Spanish Flu Safety Posters

• Mae Niyom: The Ghost of a Beauty Queen in West Bangkok

• Honoring the "Last Act of Kindness": Bangkok’s Medical Museum as a Living Shrine

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Jacques Callot

• "Maquech": Bejeweled Mayan Beetles and a Tragic Love Legend

• A collection of portraits Stereoscopic Skin Clinic by Dr. Rainforth

• Miniatures Holy Matrimony: The Strange Church Dollhouse from the Toy Museum in Mexico

• The Demonic Madonna of Antonio Vivarini

• Rocaille Tombs and Broken Flowers: A Virtual Tour of a Ruined yet Charming Southern France Cemetery

• Mournful Still-Lives: A Donation of Victorian Funerary Arrangements

• The Madonna and The Mummy: Robert Doisneau at the Muséum D'Histoire Naturelle

• A Quick Drink at Cabaret du Neant

• Our Lady of Modern Despair: A Favorite Waxwork and Her Peculiar History

• The Weeping Virgin of La Salette Under the Snow

• The Birth of Eve

• Mademoiselle Claire: The Automaton Nurse of Bretonneau Hospital

• The Other Side: 19th Century Newspaper From the Land of the Dead

Collection Peek for $10/mo and Above Members

• Collection Peek: Jim Shaw: The Hidden World

• Collection Peek: Santo Niño Cieguito Devotional Image

• October Collection Peek: Wisconsin Death Trip, by Michael Lesy

• Collection Peek: Blood: Art, Power, Politics and Pathology

• Collection Peek: Mexican Catholic Talisman

• Collection Peek: A Highly Illustrated Book Documenting the Reliquary Collection of Cologne's Schnütgen Museum

• • Collection Peek: An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body

• Collection Peek: Artempo: Where Time Become: Exhibition Catalog from a Showa at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, 2007

• Collection Peek: Handmade Santa Muerte Statue, from Mexico City Santa Muerte Shrine

• Collection Peek: Santa Muerte Folk Art from Puebla, Mexico Shrine

• Collection Peek: Ghosts, Part of The Enchanted World Series, Published by Time-Life books

• Collection Peek: Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relationship to the Dead, by Elisabeth Bronfen

• Collection Peek: The Museo Degli Argenti: Collections and Collectors

• Collection Peek: "Boogieman Oh Please!" A New Donation to The Morbid Anatomy Library to Commemorate Friday the 13th