Andrea Janes tells ghost stories for a living. She is the co-author of America’s Most Gothic and A Haunted History of Invisible Women and the owner and founder of Boroughs of the Dead, a boutique tour company dedicated to dark and unusual walking tours of New York City. She is currently at work on a history of Brooklyn’s most scandalous haunted house, Melrose Hall. Her personal obsessions include weird history, slapstick comediennes, witches, ghosts, and all things nautical. She lives in Brooklyn where she can usually be found roaming in a cemetery, swimming in the ocean, or telling stories to her daughter.