NPR Mystery Guest!

Our tour guide Marie Carter was a mystery guest on NPR’s Ask Me Another! In a segment somewhat reminiscent of the old TV show What’s My Line, Ophira and Jonathan quizzed Marie in this round of Mystery Guest, trying to figure out just what it is she does...

Two Boroughs of the Dead Guides Featured in Morris-Jumel Anthology

Boroughs of the Dead is proud to announce that two of its guides are featured in the upcoming Morris-Jumel Mansion Anthology of Paranormal and Fantasy Fiction, published by Riverdale Books. The anthology features fourteen tales set in the Morris-Jumel Mansion,...

Ghosts We’ve Known Storytelling Competition

Do you think you have what it takes to tell the scariest ghost story? Then prove it at Catland Books on Sunday, October 16th! In conjunction with the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Boroughs of the Dead presents Ghosts We’ve Known, a LIVE ghost storytelling...

A Virtual Tour of Poe’s New York City

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe today, join us a virtual tour of Poe’s New York City. This virtual tour builds on our “Edgar Allan Poe in Greenwich Village,” letting us range up and down the length of Manhattan and the Bronx, discovering significant...

Edgar Allan Poe in Greenwich Village: A Literary Walking Tour

Discover Poe’s New York on Edgar Allan Poe In Greenwich Village, a two-hour literary and historical walking tour that steps into the Greenwich Village of the 1840s, where Poe lived and worked at the height of his fame — before plunging irrevocably into the...