This year, the theme for the 37th annual Hauntfest on Fifth Street is Science Fiction. Are you ready for the alien invasion? Perhaps this magazine will help. We also have dozens of vintage UFO mags from the '70s you can beam-up into your collection!
Edward Gorey artwork adorns this volume of witchy stories. It's full Gorey on the outside but, how gory on the inside? You'll have to buy it to know for sure! I don't expect this collector's item to be here long.
Discovered in a random #usedBookStore on #VancouverIsland: "Lisette", by Eglanton Thorne and published by The Religious Tract Society, London, some time before 1890 (probably printed 1889)
A simplistic morality tale set in earlier 19th century France. The story is not the point, but rather what it says about the late-19th century English and how they viewed their world and their place in it.
"Weird Parenting Wins" & "Your Child's Destiny–A Numerology Guide for Parents" are intriguing, but aren't the most interesting looking books. So, the background I've added is a composite of the Addams Family's & the Munster's houses. Talk about weird parenting!
Mainly, these books remind me to get my Halloween music out. It's less than two weeks until #HauntfestOnFifth Street. "The Teen Spell Book" & "The Book of Magic" are here now!
Now that Monday has been cast out, here are 2 books to help exorcise other evils. One supposes that "demons" are really aliens and we should seek to communicate, rather than expel them. The other seems to presume that only women can be demon-possessed. Maybe that's why Stephen King's famous fictional Fury was "Christine", instead of Carson.
Cryptic books from the cobwebbed stacks in the dark secret vault of the hidden cellar in the deepest chamber of the dank tunnels and haunted passages beneath the innocent looking bookshop named BONNETT'S. What more waits for you? Do you dare enter to examine the tomes of a forgotten age?
Happy Satyr-day!
Dayton's "Hauntfest on Fifth" Halloween street party can be quite sexy & has a sci-fi theme year. The titles of these 2 books cover the bases... Extreme Sensuous Space Magic! The party is Oct. 28th -just 2 weeks away- but these books are here now. Space bikinis, bubble helmets, & gold shorts optional.
Hooked on the Monster? A regular Frankie fan? Frankophile? Bride to be? It's your lucky day! We've recently dug up two pieces of Frankenstein lore & assembled them here! If you're out puttin' on the ritz, make us a stop your list!
Friday the 13th is for Jason Voorhees and Halloween is for Michael Myers but any time you sleep is for Freddy Krueger. This ex-library hardcover is just the thing for Wes Craven fans. Will you be ready when the nightmare comes to your street?
If you want to give yourself goose-bumps, you may discover the name brand is hard to find. The "Fright Time" series offered 3 stories each for triple the thrills! These and many more frightening fables for young monster hunters are available here now!
You may have noticed that this shop keeps odd hours. It's true. And now, aside from these 3 books, I also have a copy of "Odd Hours." You may find these haunting out shelves now, alongside many of your other favorite oddities and plenty of classic mainstream titles as well!
If you're on holiday, it's a good time to read a book. Today's features are "The Legacy" a novel by John Coyne & "Freaks" by Werner Adrian. "Freaks" is not a book about the old movie with the same name, but about their history in carnival sideshows & exploitation cinema.
Tonight's Vampire Ball at Next Door Lounge has inspired today's post. But, who can think of vampires without also conjuring werewolves? The King book is illustrated throughout by horror art icon, Berni Wrightson!
10/5/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please. Dayton Ghosts & Legends signing tomorrow night!
The twisted imagination of H.P. Lovecraft gave literature many terrors beyond human reckoning. We would be less than insects to the horrors residing here in darkness or from the farthest reaches of space. His works have inspired many writers since. These 2 and many other frightening fictions are here now!
A few days ago I shared a 6 vol serial novel from Fawcett in '97. This is the set that inspired it, from Signet in '96. Note, the first vol of this 1st ed, 1st print set is embossed in silver. Later printings were embossed, but plain white. The other volumes are not embossed. This set is available here, now!
It's Banned Books Week. Are any of these on a ban list? Possibly. However, books aren't banned at Bonnett's. Many of the best books ever have been the target of bans, and I try to keep the classics in stock. Stop in and see!
9/25/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please. Closed Tuesday this week. Back to normal on Wednesday.
It's Monday. If that's not scary enough, try "Queens of Scream–The New Blood", interviews with women of horror cinema! This horror movie book & many more lurk in the stacks, waiting for you now, at #BonnettsBooks!
From Harvard Lampoon in 1969, eventual founders of National Lampoon magazine gave us BORED OF THE RINGS, an epic parody of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." This '90s reprint edition will still delight anyone with a love of fantasy and a good sense of humor. Journey in for this and much, much more!
I can't help but wonder what tale was told by Huyang in 'Ahsoka' episode 6, but the cue surely sent viewers of a certain age right back to 1977.
Kristin Baver's "Skywalker–A Family at War" (2021) is a sort of biography or history book chronicling the iconic "Star Wars" family. Study. There may be a test.
9/20/23 Open 6-9p. No open food/drink containers, please.
This book is a beater but still a treasure. That's the way it goes, sometimes. I may keep it. Sci-fi by authors you might not expect, plus known entities of the genre and then some!
I've heard the Barbie movie can now be streamed, but Oppenheimer is still on deck. While waiting, if you're in the mood to supplement your knowledge of America's early atomic endeavor, "Now It Can Be Told–The Story of The Manhattan Project" might be just what you need. This vintage book is available here now.
Few people epitomize haunting season as does Vincent Price. His career spanned 6 decades and included much more than creepshows. Mysteries, classics, comedy, art, cooking, and more are among his books, audio recordings, radio shows, plays, dozens of TV appearances, voice work for animation and music videos, and more movies than I can list, here. Enjoy the discovery!