Today we bought a house. --- With the Ghost at the soon-to-be Haunted Bookshop.

Have you been in since Renaissance and Medieval History had to be moved to another bookshelf because we added so many titles? How about since all the Raymond Queneau, Haruki Murakami, and Christopher Moore showed up? And about a shelf of plays, including both Wilsons and Soyinka? Most importantly, HAVE YOU WISHED LOGAN HAPPY BIRTHDAY? He's 7.

IT'S OFFICIAL.

We have been approved for financing, so later this year, we will be moving to our new home at 219 N. Gilbert Street.

Thank you for all the curiosity, excitement, support, cardboard box offers, help offers, and general absolutely delightful supportiveness you have shown us during this process. You've made what might have been an incredibly stressful prospect fun!

The bad news: Murphy-Brookfield won't be right down the street from us anymore. (Murphy-Brookfield Books is shifting to an online format for their business, and they kindly let us make an early offer on their building, hence the familiar address.)

The good news: The Haunted will have growing equity in a beautiful, historic home, which will help us to remain stable and committed to the Iowa City book community for decades to come.

Moving dates are not yet set (because we have not yet officially scheduled the upgrades we'd like to do *before* moving 40,000 books into the house), but we will keep you informed.

 

 

YES, we will be open on Labor Day, 10-8 as usual. Meaning neither disrespect to the Labor movement nor protest of it - we just have that many MORE BOOKS to process.

See you later this weekend!

Take pride in your loves. We'll be proud to support you.

 

 

All the sections look like this right now. Packed with genius, laughs, perspectives, and epiphanies. Find your next inspiration.

Remember when paperbacks ranged from $1.50 to $8 for the big fancy ones, and hardcovers started around $4.50 and got as high as $12.95?

HERE, they still do.

(...We do charge a little more for the 16th and 17th century books though. I'm sure you understand.)

And then I got more. Books, not cats. (Mark Twain and Neil Gaiman fans, you're going to be *so* happy.)