Our Guides
Founder and owner Andrea Janes is the author of BOROUGHS OF THE DEAD: New York City Ghost Stories, the book that inspired this company. The book is a work of fiction, but in the course of her research, she discovered the city was a wealth of ghostly, gory stories, and decided she wanted to share them with the world. Andrea is also the author of the YA novel GLAMOUR, and several short horror stories.
Originally from the Boston area, Adrian Sexton always had a passion for American history and a fascination with the macabre; she spent her youth wandering around old colonial graveyards and being the unofficial tour guide for the school field trips to Salem, MA. Currently she also works as a Museum Educator at the Morris-Jumel Mansion. You can follow Adrian’s adventures on Instagram @adrianprincessofpudding and on Twitter @adrian_sexton
SJ Costello is an illustrator, author of the gothic novel Lacrimore and museum educator with a fondness for sea shanties, sideshows, and the supernatural. When not leading tours with Boroughs of the Dead, SJ can be found leading programs at the Tenement Museum and trawling antique shops for any old object that has a tale to tell.