"Morbid Anatomy Anthology" is Kickstarter Staff Pick!

Maybe all this promising of offerings to the saints to protect Morbid Anatomy Library from Hurricane Sandy has paid off, though in entirely unpredictable ways? I just found out that our campaign to raise funds for The Morbid Anatomy Anthology Volume 1--a lavish, illustrated book which will immortalize in print some of the best of the Morbid Anatomy Presents-- got chosen as a staff pick on Kickstarter!

If you have not already given it a look, you can check it out here; you can also learn more about the project by watching the video above, made by the über-talented Ronni Thomas, creator of The Midnight Archive.

More on the book below:

The Morbid Anatomy Anthology will cover such topics as anthropodermic bibliopegy (ie. books bound in human skin), 19th Century "Diableries", Henry Wellcome's collections of preserved human tattoos, 19th century death-themed Parisian cabarets, extreme taxidermy, popular wax anatomical models, "collecting death," the uncanny allure of the Anatomical Venus, Santa Muerte and Death in Mexico, L'Inconnue de la Seine, "artist of death" Frederik Ruysch, macabre collections, "human zoos," and much, much, MUCH more.
The rogue scholars, artists, writers, museologists, morticians and scientists whose works will fill this volume will include (in no particular order):

• Evan Michelson, star of TV's "Oddities" and Morbid Anatomy Library Scholar in Residence
• Mark Dery, cultural critic and author of the upcoming The Doubtful Guest: The Mysterious Mind and Legendary Life of Edward Gorey
• Paul Koudounaris, author/photographer of Empire of Death
• Stephen Asma, author of Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
• Caitlin Doughty of Order of the Good Death
• Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind 
• Mel Gordon, author of The Grand Guingol 
• Kate Forde, curator at The Wellcome Collection
• Pat Morris, author of Walter Potter and His Museum of Curious Taxidermy
• Richard Faulk, author of Gross America
• Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class teacher Sue Jeiven
• Elizabeth Bradley, author of Knickerbocker: The Myth behind New York
• Amy Herzog, professor of Professor of Media Studies at Queens College
• Ronni Thomas, creator of The Midnight Archive
• John Troyer, deputy director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath
• Artist Zoe Bellof
• Photographer Shannon Taggart
• Richard Harris, "collector of death"
• Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor Press
• Ross MacFarlane of The Wellcome Library
• Dániel Margócsy, professor of early modern history at Hunter College
• Scholar Salvador Olguin 
• Bookmaker Daniel Smith
• Gemma Angel, Academic, writer, tattooist
• Vadim Kosmos of The Last Tuesday Society
• Michelle Legro of Lapham's Quarterly 
• Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy
• Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty and Afterlives of the Saints