Quick Tour of the New Haunted

Virginia's Room - A star quilt over a comfy chair, an endtable for your coffee cup and book pile, and visible beyond are part of World War II through the Korea and Viet Nam conflicts. You're in the Military History section.

Virginia's Room - Looking the other way, toward the U.S. Civil War and the first World War. While we often give directions by calling this "the red room" it is actually named for Nialle's grandmother, who has been a tremendous supporter of the Haunted over the last nine years.

This squishy chair is in Will's room, also known as "the green room" or "the science room." Look: bird books and gardening books... hey, which smart aleck put a book with tigers on the cover in the bird section?

Looking the other direction in Will's Room: Linguistics and a lot of books in French, German, Spanish, Latin, and more. Behind you are Biology and Ecology, and off to your right are Astronomy and Physics; to your left are Psychology and Medicine.

Will's Room, the Human Department: Psychology, Education, Games, Sports, and Medicine. Visible at left, books by Dr. Nancy Andreasen; at center, the rapidly growing Chess section; not so visible at the right but definitely a priority with us, Baseball, and some other sports.

Agriculture and Anthropology and the door from Will's Room to the next room. Anna, you old skeptic you, I want you to notice that while you can *see* sacred writ from the science room, it's not *in* the science room.

Where sacred literature *is* is in the Radulpharium, named for Ralph Keen. Visible here is Christian theology; not shown but to the left is general spirituality, and to the right are Eastern religions; around the corner to the right (it's a maze) are Judaica and Islam. In the background/center of this picture is the other side of the room, where we keep philosophy and cultural history.

Cultural history (Native American Studies is particularly visible at the left front) and Philosophy (now with more philosophers! on the right), as well as our (in)famous Sex, Death, and Cities sections (now with more cities). Also visible at the top left is a south-facing cat bed and the trim that gives the Radulpharium its nickname of "the blue room."

Between the Radulpharium ("philosophy and religion room") and the history rooms on the north side of the building: Mythology and Folklore. Yes, we did that on purpose. The couch is under the east window and is sunny by day and cozy by night; make yourself comfortable. The cats might even sit in the baskets in the window and not on you. Unless you pet them, and then your lap trumps the baskets.

Across the hall: Josh's Room. On the near left is the currently unusually large Medieval History section; on either side of the chair are Oceania, Africa, and Asia; housed in the bookcase on the right (on loan from the Jon Collection) is Geography, conveniently located in exactly the same way that the Urals are, between Asia and Europe (not shown, off to the right).

Europe is still just a bit of a jumble, but probably because it is confused about Russia being at the beginning of this bay, or possibly about the book displayed two pictures ago - the flag book with the possibly soon to be altered Union Jack on the front. (Vexillology alert: If Scotland secedes, some feel, the blue has to leave the UK flag.)

This photo, which shows the mess - I mean the room - to the right as you walk in the front door of the bookshop, is a placeholder awaiting tomorrow's project: to depict the main floor.