From Secret of the Old Books by Betty Baxter Anderson, 1952.

From The [Thornton] Courier, 1974.

Just as today folks go to a bookshop for the coffee, they used to go for the skulls.  From The Century, 1893.

An interesting attitude toward the weather: "It always has stopped raining."  Plus, never try to fist-bump a lady with a book in her hands.  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.

One encounters so few haunted bookstores anymore (at least ones that advertise their hauntedness).  Our favorite haunted bookstore, in Louisiana (a derelict building now, shown here), allowed patrons to take any haunted book away for every two haunted books they brought in.  Just imagine — books so accursed, so jinxed, that the proprietor was willing to receive two haunted books of unknown provenance just to rid himself of one.  Perhaps his unnaturally possessed stock, by the fine print of some diabolical bargain, could only be voluntarily taken and not sold.  Perhaps that's why that haunted bookstore allowed trades.  From The Martlet, 1976.

Bears guard the literature and business shelves.  From Butler's 1985 yearbook.

Gordon spotted our Hexopedia in the "Outer Limits" section of Quimby's Bookstore, between the Krampus Sticker Book and the This Way Madness Lies.

We're delighted to see our How to Be Your Own Cat rising to the top at Quimby's Bookstore.  (Photo via the Quimby's instagram.)  Looks like we're in fine company alongside the Twin Peaks recipe book (Damn Fine Cherry Pie), as well as guitarist Johnny Marr and some Ancient Aliens.