erin morgenstern

@erinmorgenstern

Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat.

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erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· 18d

Last day for this giveaway! Ends at 11:59pm EST which is very specific. Of course if you would like to get any of these things directly the Out of Print collection is here: outofprint.com/collections/... 🎪 & The Phantomwise Tarot is available places books/decks are sold including bookshop.org 🖤

A pair of feet modeling the Out of Print Night Circus socks, black socks with white stripes and stars, red toes and heels with a circus tent design on the ankle. A silver tabby cat sits nearby, completely upstaging the product being featured like she always does.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· 18d

Got my (our) signed copy of Offerings for Ordinary Gods from Inkwood Books! So delighted to have Ali's gorgeous poetry in such beautiful, tangible form 🖤

A copy of Ali Trotta's poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods, which has a black cover with gold script text and a woman obscured by a red hood. Peeking out from behind the book is a silver tabby cat who is also attempting to look mysterious.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· 25d

Over on Instagram Out of Print and Clarkson Potter have partnered with Vintage Books for a Night Circus giveaway, including the OoP Night Circus collection and The Phantomwise Tarot 🎪 US only, ends 7/24, more info here: www.instagram.com/p/Da5mDmqGn1N/

The Night Circus collection from Out of Print, including a t-shirt, striped socks and an enamel pin, laid out on a gold background along with the Phantomwise Tarot and a paperback copy of The Night Circus.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Jul 8

Now we are forty-eight, taking antique mirror selfies while seeking out birthday treasures. (Came home with cigar boxes and a blank 1930s ledger and a tiny Whiting & Davis silver bag.) Later there will be festive beverages 🥂 Mostly offline for the summer, I hope your days are bright and buzzing 🐝

Antique mirror selfie of Erin Morgenstern, holding a pink phone and wearing a black shirt with a lot of silver jewelry. Her hair is dark and the kind of curly highly specific to summer humidity. In the background there are old paintings and a rogue door, a pile of axes and a metal horse.

Antique (probably vintage, actually) mirror selfie of Erin Morgenstern, holding a pink phone and wearing a black shirt with lots of silver jewelry. In the background of the reflection there are framed paintings and piles of vintage clothing including a top hat. The mirror is oval in a large gold frame, next to the mirror is a sepia-toned oval painting of a woman with a bird.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· May 5

The gorgeous Folio Society edition of The Starless Sea, illustrated by Cristina Bencina, is now available! So honored to have Folio work their magic on this one. 🖤 Sail the Starless Sea and breathe the haunted air here: www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-star...

The Folio Society edition of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (that's me). It has a deep blue cloth cover featuring a golden sea and a ship with red sails and a rabbit figurehead. There is a silver tabby cat sitting next to the book.

The Folio Society edition of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, displayed flat and mostly slipped out of its slipcase. The book and slipcase are both deep blue, the book cover shows a ship with red sails on a gilded sea and the top of the slipcase is designed to look as though it is dripping with sparkling honey.

One of Cristina Bencina's illustrations from the Folio Society edition of The Starless Sea depicting a stag in the snow. The stag's antlers are covered in lit candles.

One of Cristina Bencina's illustrations for the Folio Society edition of The Starless Sea depicting a pink-haired woman wearing a crown and gown that evokes Max's wolf suit from Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· May 1

Bluesky sneak peek: The Folio Society edition of The Starless Sea, illustrated by the incredible @cristinabencina.bsky.social, launching May 5th 🐝🗝️🗡️🖤 www.foliosociety.com

The title page of the Folio Society edition of The Starless Sea, featuring an elaborate greyscale illustration of a crowned owl on a black background. Feathers flutter around the title. The text reads: The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern, Illustrated by Cristina Bencina, London, The Folio Society, 2026.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Feb 17

Happy Lunar New Year 🖤🥂🎠

A glass of champagne sitting on a wooden library card catalogue next to a bronze statue of a carousel horse and under an art deco lamp covered in glass prisms.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Feb 4

Preorders for the LitJoy box set are now open! These are very special, very limited editions. Have I mentioned that the covers have removable metal charms? (Covers designed by Lichen & Limestone, they also make candles!) It's all very fancy. 🖤 Preorder info here: litjoycrate.com/products/the...

A graphic showing the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea, with new ornately designed covers in silver and gold foil, respectively, on black covers. They are shown over desaturated versions of Patsy Lascano's endpaper illustrations. Text reads: The Night Circus & The Starless Sea special edition book box set, preorders open, Erin Morgenstern x Litjoy.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Feb 3

Preorders for the LitJoy set of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea open tomorrow, Feb 4th! Ships in the fall. These editions contain dozens of annotations written by me & beautiful art by multiple artists. (I made Patsy Lascano's endpapers my desktop wallpaper.) litjoycrate.com/products/the...

A photograph of a page from The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (that's me), the chapter title is "Ailuromancy" and there is a hand-written note, pointing at it with a little arrow, that reads "divination using the movement of cats!" in questionable handwriting in black ink.

Photo of a corner of a desk mostly taken up by an iMac displaying an illustration by Patsy Lascano depicting a scene from The Starless Sea: a sprawling space filled with columns and books and a large metallic orrery. Surrounding the computer there are rabbits and witches and crystals and origami, and bare winter trees are visible through the window behind it.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Jan 13

This gorgeous set includes both books in a custom slipcase, covers with foiled designs & metal inlays, illustrated edges, art by several different incredible artists as well as a multitude of personal annotations from the author in my questionable handwriting. 🖤 litjoycrate.com/products/the...

A graphic displaying mockups of the upcoming LitJoy edition of The Night Circus, showing both the cover and the back as well as the illustrated edges. The covers are black with elaborate silver foiling displaying a clock about to strike midnight and circus tents and stars, the clock face on the cover is metal. Cover design by Lichen & Limestone, page edges by Fyodor Pavlov.

A graphic displaying mockups of the upcoming LitJoy edition of The Starless Sea, showing both the cover and the back as well as the illustrated edges. The covers are black with elaborate gold foiling displaying doors with bees and keys and swords, the back includes a crown, a heart and a feather. The sword on the cover is metal. Cover design by Lichen & Limestone, page edges by Fyodor Pavlov.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Jan 13

Delighted to finally be able to announce these beautiful new editions of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea coming soon from LitJoy! 🖤 Much more info here: litjoycrate.com/products/the...

A graphic displaying mockups of the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea, showing two angles of both books in a single slipcase covered with black, white and grey tarot-inspired designs by artist Fyodor Pavlov.

A graphic composed of two slivers of art from the upcoming LitJoy editions of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea. One side depicts Marco and Celia under the candle-covered Wishing Tree from The Night Circus, the other side depicts a paint-covered Zachary arriving in the Heart of the Harbor from The Starless Sea, both pieces by artist Patsy Lascano.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Dec 31

Annual New Year's Eve Post is up on the blog. 🖤 Goodbye 2025, you were a Time: erinmorgenstern.com/2025/12/good...

A collage of photos including the title page of the Folio Society edition of The Night Circus, a kitten attempting to eat the Folio Society edition of The Night Circus, the very shiny red edition of The Night Circus from Acrylipics and a teacup with the Starless Sea tea blend from Old Growth Alchemy.

A lane at night flanked with bare trees and snow. The trees are lit with white light and behind them is a red glow. Photo taken at Nightwood at the Mount in Lenox, MA.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Dec 31

Favorite books I read in 2025: Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner The River Has Roots- @amalelmohtar.com The God of the Woods - Liz Moore Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy The Everlasting - @alixeharrow.bsky.social The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - @sgj.bsky.social

A stack of the aforementioned books on a desk in front of a window, with a silver tabby cat sitting very politely next to them.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Dec 24

Cheeses for us Meeces!

A plate of multiple cheeses (a roquefort, a gouda, a humbolt fog) and honeycomb (there are crackers and bread and persimmons and jalapeños out of frame) next to a glass of port. In the background is a television displaying the title screen of The Muppet Christmas Carol.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Nov 26

Lady Vesper has chosen the Knight of Cups today, an omen for sensitive, poetical, possibly-festive-beverage-involving days to come. Lady Vesper is a Professional, she has been reading (attempting to eat) tarot cards since she was a kitten. 🖤

A pair of fluffy white kitten paws holding the Knight of Cups from the Phantomwise Tarot. There is a very obvious bite mark on one side of the card.

A pensive silver tabby cat holding a tarot card, sprawled out on a carpet surrounded by cards from The Phantomwise Tarot.

A tiny baby of a silver tabby cat chewing on the borderless edition of the Smith-Waite tarot, mostly chomping on the 4 of Cups and the 9 of Pentacles

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Nov 26

Also a great gift for fortune telling kittens? Lady Vesper has chosen (and gently gnawed upon) your card 🖤 (Card shall be revealed later when I can get it back, it's hers now.)

A scattering of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot with a silver tabby cat who has excitedly trapped a single card between her little paws.

A scattering of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot and a silver tabby cat who has a single card trapped between her paws and is attempting to eat it.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Nov 26

I was reminded recently that many people are unaware that I painted a tarot deck that was published a couple of years ago by Clarkson Potter! The Phantomwise Tarot makes an excellent gift and is available where books or decks are sold, including @bookshop.org 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Cards from The Phantomwise Tarot spread out across a surface, completely covering the frame. Each card is painted in monochrome with black borders and white script titles.

A pile of cards from The Phantomwise Tarot being rolled upon by a silver tabby cat. (It's part of her tarot reading process.)

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Nov 9

Spending the afternoon signing books for Odyssey Bookshop and watching Elden Ring Bingo. Vesper is "helping." Waiting on one more shipment of books which should be here soon and then everything will go to Odyssey for shipping. Thank you for supporting a fantastic indie bookstore 🖤

A long wooden table with several stacks of paperback copies of The Starless Sea, a large cardboard box with a Penguin Random House penguin on it, and a silver tabby cat sprawled out around the books with her paws up in the air, who thinks there should be less signing and more petting.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Oct 31

A toast to Herr Thiessen, 2025 🖤

A skeleton-handed glass of white wine sitting on a bookshelf, surrounded by a Darla Jackson sculpture of a fox, a Burke & Hare candle (Haunted) and a very small pumpkin. There are books by Calvino and Carroll on the shelves. You can't hear it, but in the background Florence + the Machine's "Everybody Scream" is playing. Happy Halloween & Blessed Samhain.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Oct 30

Reminder that tomorrow, October 31st, is the last day to order signed & personalized books from Odyssey Bookshop! The first wave of books has arrived and they've been thoroughly checked by the resident Box Inspector/Halloween Cat 🎃 Ordering information here: odysseybks.com/morgenstern

A large pile of cardboard boxes with a silver tabby cat standing on top of them. The cat is attempting to be scary or possibly just finished yawning, with her back up and her tongue out.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Oct 1

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. - L. M. Montgomery

A leaf-covered path in the woods, flanked by tall trees glowing yellow and green in the sunlight.

A shelf at a garden store containing several potted plants in rich red colors against a bright blue sky. In the center of the shelf there is a ceramic skull.

The view looking straight up at tall maple trees covered in golden leaves against a bright blue sky.

A green field starting to show its autumnal colors in front of a mist-filled valley with a mountain visible beyond beneath a sky clouded in a way that makes the mist feels like a mirror.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Sep 19

For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern

A stack of hardcover copies of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern in front of a silver tabby cat with an expression on her face that seems to say "why do you have so many copies of the same book?"

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Sep 16

Happiest Book Birthday to @mcflycahill90.bsky.social's Audition for the Fox! 🦊 I'm still in awe of how much world Marty managed to fit in such a slim volume. (Vesper is, too.) This book is a marvel. 🖤 tachyonpublications.com/product/audi...

A copy of Audition for the Fox standing on a table. Looming behind it is a silver tabby cat, peering over the corner with large, curious eyes.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Aug 29

Hello Bluesky! Still not around here or online much in general (save for occasionally retumbling pretty things on tumblr) and probably won't be for a bit, I hope you're all as well as can be. The bunnies are still around and there is also a groundhog.

A small brown bunny sitting up amongst grass and clover. Their little ears are sticking up like they are listening for something.

A brownish groundhog with a slightly darker mask and a bushy tail walking through grass and clover.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Jul 29

Hi again Bluesky! Still not around here much. Also, an important bunny update: two bunnies.

Two small brown bunnies in a lawn full of clover and dandelions, the world is their salad.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Jul 29

The winner of the Folio Book Illustration Award has been announced! Huge congratulations to @dawnxtyang.bsky.social, I couldn't stop thinking about this piece as soon as I saw it. More information including the rest of the incredible shortlist here: www.foliosociety.com/uk/folio-boo...

Illustration of Rapunzel by Dawn Xintong Yang. The image features a large pair of scissors pointing toward the viewer surrounded by a swirling braid of hair. Rapunzel's frightened eyes are reflected in the scissors and a dark figure holds them in the background.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Jun 30

Hello Bluesky! I have not been around because June has been a Time and I will probably not be around much for the rest of the summer. I hope you're all as well as can be. Here, have a tiny bunny. 🖤

A photo of very small bunny in my yard taken from behind so the bun appears very round and their little head is turned to the side so one bright eye is visible along with its tiny little ears. The tiny bunny sits on a rock wall covered in moss, surrounded by grass and leaves.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· May 15

Also: Hi Bluesky! I am not around a lot but I hope you're all doing as well as possible. I am attempting to write a book and leaving super useful notes for myself in the process.

A Scrivener document comment that reads "details are for Future Erin."

A Scrivener document comment that reads "there's a way to make this sound pretty but also dirty."

A Scrivener document comment that reads "look up different types maybe i don't know i'm tired."

Two Scrivener document comments, the first reads "rewrite all of this i cannot words today" and the second reads "all of this should be sexier."

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· May 15

Spring is always slow around here but it is very pretty once it arrives 🌸

Branches covered with pale pink crabapple blossoms in bright sunshine.

A branch of white crabapple blossoms and bright green leaves backlit by the sun.

A cluster of lilacs surrounded by bright green leaves.

A tunnel of bright green leaves with the tiny bell-shaped flowers of a lily of the valley in the center.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern· Apr 29

(Vesper did try to eat The Staircase in the Woods.)