The Haunted Bookshop is a sequel to Parnassus on Wheels, in which the discontented farm spinster Helen runs off with the charming travelling bookseller Roger Mifflin. Happily married, the Mifflins run a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is haunted by quirky characters of both the dead and undead variety. Helen bakes chocolate, Roger waxes, and romance and comedy abound. Morley’s novels about the Mifflins are charming, delightful little books that are really about the importance of reading and the sheer love that everyday people—from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first—have for books, whether they’re romances, mysteries, or ghost stories. If the other books on this haunted booklist have set your hair on end, this older, lighter, comical ghost story might be just what you need to fall asleep again.

posted May 22, 2009 at 10:49AM

The bookshop is haunted. Not by ghosts, but by the thoughts of the hundreds of authors who have expressed their thoughts through literature. This is the secret to the bookshop owner's success. But will the bookshop and the authors within be able to overcome a nefarious plot to harm the president?

posted Jun 16, 2012 at 11:51PM

The bookshop is haunted. Not by ghosts, but by the thoughts of the hundreds of authors who have expressed their thoughts through literature. This is the secret to the bookshop owner's success. But will the bookshop and the authors within be able to overcome a nefarious plot to harm the president?

posted Jun 16, 2012 at 11:51PM

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