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.
Marie Carter grew up in Scotland near Edinburgh, a city bubbling with ghost stories. Her father was a bus tour guide in Edinburgh and he would often drive her around town quizzing her on historical facts. She now lives and leads ghost tours in Astoria, Queens. She’s the author of The Trapeze Diaries and the editor Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland. Marie works with Boroughs of the Dead both as a tour guide and as a tour developer and researcher.
Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, and award-winning bestselling author of multiple Historical Fantasy series for adults and teens, including the Strangely Beautiful saga, the Magic Most Foul saga and the Eterna Files saga from Tor/Forge. Most of her books are set in Victorian New York and all of her work deals with the supernatural, paranormal, Gothic and fantastical.
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.