Recorded Lectures, Illustrated Essays, and Loads of Other Excusive New Content on our Patreon!

Dr. Alexander Cummins at the "Morbid Anatomy Revival Tent" at Green-Wood Cemetery's Night Fall. Photo: Maike Schulz

Over past few years, Morbid Anatomy has been producing exhibitions and programing with New York partners like historic Green-Wood Cemetery and Hauser and Wirth Gallery. Now, thanks to our Patreon, people from all over the world can virtually enjoy our often sold out lectures along with loads of other exclusive content!

Right now on our Patreon you will find video and audio recordings of dozens of our most popular lectures, a variety of illustrated essays by the Morbid Anatomy staff and community, and virtual tours of obscure locales (click here for a full list of contents). New pieces are added weekly, and we have many exciting offerings slotted for the days and months to come!

All of this content is available for only $5 a month. Supporters at higher levels also enjoy access to exclusive parties and events, free and discounted events, custom merchandise, and much more.

Your support on Patreon is, in essence, a virtual Morbid Anatomy membership. Your subscription fees underwrite our work producing the content, exhibitions, and events you love, as well as the commissioning of new content. It also helps foster the unique community we have cultivated since our launch in 2007. And, at only $60 a year, it also makes a great Christmas gift for your morbid, hard to shop for friends!

If you appreciate what we do, and enjoy learning about obscure and fascinating things, please consider becoming a Patreon member! Click here.

Below are just a very few of the video and audio recordings, illustrated articles by guest writers, and Morbid Anatomy original content you'll find nowhere else. Click here to see the full list and become a member.

Video Recordings of Illustrated Lectures

• Maria Sabina: Shaman, Curandera, Visionary Poet by Mexican poet and author Homero Aridjis
• Walter Potter Panel Discussion at the Adirondacks Experience with Ronni Thomas, Evan Michelson, Carol Holzner and Joanna Ebenstein
• Victorian Martians by Marc Harztman, author of American Sideshow
• "Haunted:" An Immersive Journey Through the Ghost Trains and Haunted Houses of the Northeast by photographer Lisa Kereszi
• Investigating the Supernatural: Scientific Quests to Colonize Hysterical Women and Psychic Mediums by Asti Hustvedt, author of Medical Muses
• Sacred Retablos of the Latin World, a Lecture and Show and Tell by Scholar/Collector Deborah Dwyer
• A Night of Folk Necromancy with Dr. Alexander Cummins, Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and Mallorie Vaudoise
• Placebos, Nocebos and Voodoo Medicine by neurology professor Mark W Green MD, FAAN
• Satan The Prophet: A History of Modern Satanism by Italian Scholar Massimo Introvigne
• Remedios Varo: Bruja with a Brush by author and curator Pam Grossman
• Female Freaks: Sex, Science & Sideshow by sideshow performer Ilise Carter
• In Heaven: On the Meaning of Magic in the Works of David Lynch by Stef Black
• The Doors of Platonic Perception by philosophy professor Dr James Rowe

Interviews and Virtual Tours

• Sublimi Anatomie: A New Exhibition Exploring Art and Anatomy Exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
• Epic Relics, "Vera Effigies," Wonder Working Madonnas, and Gruesome Crucifixions: A Virtual Visit to Prague's Fabulous Loreto Shrine
• A Virtual Tour of Philadelphia's Eye's Gallery of International Folk Art
• A Virtual Visit to the Cementerio General de Almudena of Cusco, Peru

Audio Recordings of Lectures

• Heaven as a Place on Earth: Reflections on the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come: Audio Recording of Lecture by Will Baker
• A Cultural History of Mescaline: Recorded Lecture by Mike Jay
• Babel Rousers: The 900-year Quest to Build a Better Language by Arika Okrent
• Book Talk for Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise
• Fashion, Gender and the Feline Divine by Jo Weldon, Author of Fierce, A History of Leopard Print
• Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove by Jon Ronson, This American Life contributor and author of The Psychopath Test
• El Helicoide: From Mall to Prison by Celeste Olalquiaga, author of The Artificial Kingdom and Megalopolis
• The Alchemical Wedding, Or, How They Lived Happily Ever After by Alchemist Brian Cotnoir
• Nature Perfected: The Dream of the Artificial Woman by Asti Hustvedt, Author of Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
• Grand Guignol: Theater of Fear and Terror by Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic
• Music From Elsewhere, a concert and lecture featuring music of 'non-human people" by Fortean and musician Doug Skinner
• A Brief History of Sex Magic by Italian sociologist and author Massimo Introvigne
• NSK State: Oscillations of Utopia by NSK State Diplomat Charles Lewis

Illustrated Essays by Guest Writers

• Taxidermy as a Cultural Object: Notes on Preservation, Death and Art, An Essay and Photo Documentary by Artist and Professor Montse Morcate
• The Brushing of the Bones: Guest Post by Evan Michelson of Obscura Antiques
• Lord Kingsborough's Folly, or The Mayans and the Lost Tribes of Israel: A Guest Post by Cooper Hewitt Design Librarian Elizabeth Broman
• Twice is Nice: Double Burial Around the World by Daisy Tainton
• Traditions of Death and Burial: Book Review by Julia O'Connell
• The Underworld Meets the Earth: A Visit to the Devils Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania: Guest Post by Writer Amanda Kotch
• The Infamous Bohemian Grove: A New Donation to the Morbid Anatomy Library by  Anthony Marinese
• "Looking At Death": A Conversation With Curator and Writer Barbara Norfleet by Cristina Marcelo
• New Book on Fabulous Sedlec Ossuary
• Basil and Beheading: An Illustrated Essay by Eric Huang
• An Official Guide for Demon Hunters: Helpful Advice from Theologians and Witch-Hunters, by Stephen T. Asma, PhD
• The Gustavo Jirón Latapiat Anatomical Institute in Chile, by Álvaro Cabello
• The Uncanny, excerpt from High Weirdness: Drugs, Visions, and Esoterica in the Seventies, by Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis
• Faux Crime by Harold Schechter, true crime writer, author of The Whole Death Catalog
• “Only a Flesh Wound!” Hyperbolic Stoicism in Military Surgery at Trafalgar and Waterloo, by medical historian James Kennaway
• Frightening Fragments: The Representation of the Corpse in Baroque Sculpture by art historian Regina Deckers
• Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, and the Anatomical Still Lives by medical illustrator Marie Dauenheimer, MA, CMI
• The Not-Quite-Lost Art of Bookbinding with Human Skin by Marc Hartzman, author of American Sideshow
• The Making of the Miniature Morbid Musée, An Illustrated Ode by filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz
• The Cold War Gothicism of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, by professor Laura Westengard
• Ivory Ladies and Their Playful Anatomy by art historian Cali Buckley
• What Do the Living Mean When We Say We’re in Purgatory? by Elizabeth Harper, "All The Saints You Should Know"
• The Spirit Houses of Thailand by writer Jane Rose
• In a Lover’s Eye by hair artist, jeweler and art historian Karen Bachman

Illustrated Essays by Morbid Anatomy

Founder and creative director Joanna Ebenstein

• Santa Muerte Procession and Festival in Mérida, Mexico: Video (!) and Photos
• Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria, Fantasia, Walt Disney Studios, 1941
• Happy Day of the Dead: A Traditional Cleaning of the Bones, From the Film "Birds of Passage"
• The Anatomical Venus, The Ecstatic, The Fetish and Falling in Love with Statues
• Angels Bearing Surgical Tools: Pavia, Italy's Anatomical Theatre
• The Palermo Catacombs During Day of the Dead, 1850
• An Ode to the Visual Exuberance of Christian Allegories in Art
• Syncretism, Sex and Death at Lima's Fabulous Museo Larco
• A Mysterious Kachina Doll and an Incredible Smithsonian Manuscript Filled with Hopi Ritual Costumes and Dances Drawn by Native Artists
• Macabre Ditty from The Muppet Show, Circa 1978
• St Wilgefortis, "The Bearded Saint," at Prague's Loreto Shrine and Beyond
• Science Meets Memento Mori at the First Anatomy Museum
• Anatomical New Romantic Fantasy, from Bob Fosse's All That Jazz
• Graffiti from The Museum of the Holy Inquisition, Palermo, Sicily
• The "Cuerpo Santo" or "Cuerpo Relicario" of Mexico
• The Virgin of Guadalupe, The Black Madonna and Santa Muerte: An Illustrated Meditation on Catholicism in Mexico
• Rivers of Life or Faiths of Man in All Lands: A Chart of All Religions in History and their Symbolic Continuities, Circa 1900
• Purgatory and the "The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead" or "The Neapolitan Skull Cult"
• The Enigmatic "Christus Anatomicus"
• The Paris Morgue as Tourist Attraction and the Death Mask of L'Inconnue de la Seine
• A Virtual Visit to the Museo Storico Nazionale dell'Arte Sanitaria, Rome's Medical Museum
• Enigmatic 18th Century Miniature Wax Dissectable Woman

Programming Director director Laetitia Barbier

• "Maquech": Bejeweled Mayan Beetles and a Tragic Love Legend
• A collection of portraits Stereoscopic Skin Clinic by Dr. Rainforth
• Miniatures Holy Matrimony: The Strange Church Dollhouse from the Toy Museum in Mexico
• The Demonic Madonna of Antonio Vivarini
• Rocaille Tombs and Broken Flowers: A Virtual Tour of a Ruined yet Charming Southern France Cemetery
• Mournful Still-Lives: A Donation of Victorian Funerary Arrangements
• The Madonna and The Mummy: Robert Doisneau at the Muséum D'Histoire Naturelle
• A Quick Drink at Cabaret du Neant
• Our Lady of Modern Despair: A Favorite Waxwork and Her Peculiar History
• The Weeping Virgin of La Salette Under the Snow
• The Birth of Eve
• Mademoiselle Claire: The Automaton Nurse of Bretonneau Hospital
• The Other Side: 19th Century Newspaper From the Land of the Dead