Name: M.A. Lecture: "America's Most Gothic: History Stranger Than Fiction"
Start: 2025-11-17T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-17T20:00:00-05:00

**Event Title:** "America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction" with Authors Andrea Janes and Leanne Renee Hieber

**Event Date:** Monday, Nov. 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST

**Ticketing Info:** FREE - but you must still register at: [https://www.morbidanatomy.org/in-progress/p/free-online-book-talk-americas-most-gothic-haunted-history-stranger-than-fiction-with-authors-of-americas-most-gothic-andrea-janes-and-leanne-renee-hieber](https://www.morbidanatomy.org/in-progress/p/free-online-book-talk-americas-most-gothic-haunted-history-stranger-than-fiction-with-authors-of-americas-most-gothic-andrea-janes-and-leanne-renee-hieber)

**Ticketholders:** A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email [info.morbidanatomy@gmail.com](mailto:info.morbidanatomy@gmail.com). (Video playback of this event is only available to Morbid Anatomy's Patreon members.)

**Event Description:**
The Gothic is all around us. Isolated mansions, trauma-ridden specters, macabre love, and entrapped women are pervasive archetypes that tune into our hidden fears, cultural anxieties, and forbidden desires. Though primarily associated with fiction, literature, and film, these archetypes also appear in "true" stories in American ghost lore. *America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction* by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes is a tour through the uncanny tales of real people and settings that exude that elusive Gothic vibe. Here are cursed families, mysterious omens, open crypts and hidden chambers, haunted houses and buildings, and wild landscapes dotted with dead ships, swamps shrouded in deathly fogs—yet each story is a very real part of American history and culture. Discover the history that truly is stranger than fiction in this illustrated talk.

**About the Speaker:**

* **Andrea Janes** is the founder of Boroughs of the Dead: Macabre NYC History Tours, the co-author of *A Haunted History of Invisible Women* (2022, with Leanna Renee Hieber) and author of *Boroughs of the Dead: New York City Ghost Stories* (2011). She is currently at work on a history of Brooklyn’s most scandalous haunted house, Melrose Hall. She has a MA in Liberal Studies from City University of New York.
* **Leanna Renee Hieber** is an award-winning author and paranormal history expert. She’s a three-time Prism Award winner and a Daphne Du Maurier Award finalist.  In addition to the non-fiction book *A Haunted History of Invisible Women* (2022, with Andrea Janes), she's the author of numerous gothic Victorian fantasy novels including *The Spectral City* (2017), *Perilous Prophecy: A Strangely Beautiful Novel* (2017), *The Dark Nest Chronicles I-III* (2015) and *Miss Violet and the Great War* (2012). She graduated with a BFA in Theatre and a focus in the Victorian Era from Miami University.

**About the Event Host:**
This event is hosted by the Morbid Anatomy Blog & Library, a website dedicated to interstices of art and medicine, death and culture. Morbid Anatomy was created in 2007 as a blog by Joanna Ebenstein, a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, writer, lecturer and graphic designer. It later expanded to include a library of lectures, exhibitions, classes, spectacles, symposia, field trips, books, parties, and films. It is best known for its brief incarnation as the critically acclaimed Morbid Anatomy Museum (2013-2016) in Brooklyn, New York.

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