Victorian True Crime Tour in New York City In partnership with The Mysterious Bookshop April 20, 2026 We’re teaming up with The Mysterious Bookshop! Join Boroughs of the Dead on April 25 as we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with a very special edition of “Gotham by Gaslight: A Victorian True Crime Tour.” Step into the shadows of 19th century Gotham, then follow us into the Mysterious Bookshop afterward to browse a curated […]
Spooky Holiday Gifts Keep it Creepy with a Boroughs of the Dead Gift Card December 2, 2025 Friends, it is holiday season and if you’re like me that can only mean one thing: you’re behind. You’re behind on everything. Your year-end To Do List. Holiday Shopping. Sending cards. Fixing yourself up for those glam holiday parties. All the things. But fear not …. because Boroughs of the Dead is here to help […]
Discover the Uncanny Upper West Side Introducing a brand new ghost tour August 14, 2025 We’re thrilled to announce our latest ghost tour, The Uncanny Upper West Side. The tour debuts this October, and tickets are on sale now! Join us for strange tales of spirits, psychics, and seances on this tour of the Uncanny Upper West Side. Once the hinterlands of Manhattan, the Upper West Side has since become […]
October Ghost Tours Tickets are on sale now for the 2025 Halloween season August 7, 2025 Tickets are on sale now for our ghost tours and dark history tours for Halloween 2025! From a haunted walking tour of Lower Manhattan, to our brand new ghost tour of the Upper West Side, we’re thrilled to be back for another Spooky Season in the city. For those who are new here, our tours […]
Tours currently on hiatus Returning fall 2025 with a new book and updated tours! January 3, 2025 Boroughs of the Dead will be on hiatus through Labor Day and tours will resume in September, 2025. We’ll return with a brand-new book and some new-and-improved tours! We’re spending this time putting the finishing touches on America’s Most Gothic, which will release just in time for Spooky Season 2025, and is available for pre-order […]
Ghosts of Christmas Past: A Spooky Holiday Walking Tour New York City's original holiday ghost tour is back! November 20, 2024 It’s time to celebrate… the spooky way! We’re bringing back our annual Ghosts of Christmas Past tour this season. This is New York City’s original (since 2013!) and only Christmas Ghost Tour! More About the Tour Yuletide is the time when ghosts glide through old houses, a time for winter tales told by the fire. So we’re delving […]
City of Mysteries: Two New True Crime Tours From Victorian Murder in Manhattan to Scandal and Blood in Brooklyn September 20, 2024 Join Boroughs of the Dead for a stroll into the dark, twisted criminal history of our city as we present two new true crime tours in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Gotham by Gaslight: A Victorian True Crime Tour takes us to the 19th century, a bloody and violent era when the city seethed with murder, scandal […]
Boroughs of the Dead Book Club Edgar Allan Poe, "A Mystery of Mysteries," and Mark Dawidziak Q&A September 17, 2024 Have you ever wondered how Edgar Allan Poe really died? What actually happened on that mysterious night in October, 1849? Was Poe a victim of “cooping”? Did he have an unknown disease? Or was it… something else? This October, get ready to quiz author Mark Dawidziak on the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe at our next book talk on October 8th at […]
Merchant’s House Museum Collaboration A Special Edition of Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village August 20, 2024 During the month of September, Boroughs of the Dead is offering two tours in collaboration with the Merchant’s House Museum. In honor of Gertrude Tredwell’s birthday (September 17, 1840) you can visit the historic home before your Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village tour: just select the “Museum Tour” add-on at checkout to take a one-hour […]