Category: Books
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A Bookseller’s Guide to Haunted Bookshop Novels
Every bookseller and librarian knows the truth: some customers are not human, some books do not want to be shelved, and the stockroom is older than time itself. That is why haunted bookshop novels feel less like fiction and more like workplace training manuals with extra corpses. Why haunted bookshop novels feel like documentaries The…
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The House That Closed Its Eyes at Night
By the time Maeve realised she was living inside one of those haunted window tales she loved to read, it was far too late to move out. The house had already learned her name. It started, as these things often do, with a bargain. The letting agent called it “atmospheric” and “full of character”. Maeve…
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The Dark History Of Anthropodermic Books
Among all the strange objects in libraries and museums, few are as unsettling as anthropodermic books. These are volumes bound in human skin, sitting quietly on shelves beside far more ordinary tomes. For readers who love the macabre side of book history, they represent the point where literature, medicine and mortality collide in a truly…
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