{"id":129877,"date":"2025-08-08T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129877\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:53:17","slug":"a-visit-to-haunted-burrow-books-capitol-hills-horror-and-dark-fantasy-book-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129877\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit to Haunted Burrow Books, Capitol Hill\u2019s horror and dark fantasy book shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This literary spirit is pretty fun in corporeal form. Haunted Burrow Books\u00a0<\/strong>has made a spooky story-filled home on 15th Ave E.<\/p>\n

A recent power outage helped set the appropriate mood in the bustling commercial district on the top of Capitol Hill. Inside Haunted Burrow, a reading group gathered, divining with tarot cards \u201cin the back of the store by electronic candlelight.\u201d<\/p>\n

CHS reported here as summer began on the plan from owner and editor Roxanne Guiney<\/strong> to Bring Haunted Burrow and its offerings of \u201chorror, dark fantasy, sci-fi, and other moody genres\u201d into brick and mortar form<\/a> in an empty commercial space destined for eventual demolition and redevelopment.<\/p>\n

The store is a temporary retail experiment for the horror and dark fantasy book shop and Guiney after growing the business with flea markets and online sales.<\/p>\n

Life for any small business can feel short and fleeting but it is especially the case on 15th Ave E as neighborhood developer\u00a0Hunters Capital<\/strong> works through the maze of aligning the city\u2019s public development process with economic conditions and financing and construction windows. At the start of summer, the city\u2019s \u00a0Department of Construction & Inspections<\/strong>\u00a0issued a key decision\u00a0approving the plans<\/a>\u00a0for a six-story development to rise on the block.<\/p>\n

The project will not be breaking ground anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen interest rates and construction costs go down and and rents go up, we will have a bankable deal and we will get a loan and start construction,\u201d a Hunters representative told CHS earlier this summer.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, new spirits are haunting the block. Haunted has a new neighbor with lots of experience living amid the uncertainty of Seattle\u2019s redevelopment waves. Art cafe LOVECITYLOVE\u00a0<\/strong>has moved in on the corner<\/a> and now fills the space where neighborhood convenience store\u00a0ShopRite<\/strong> served the street for 30 years. LOVECITYLOVE\u2019s schedule ebbs and flows from coffee and juice to music and DJs to sewing class nights.<\/p>\n

Others on 15th Ave E are preparing for longer stays. The former home of Casita International<\/strong> across the street \u2014 a sad loss of one of the best window shopping windows on the Hill<\/a> when it shuttered this spring \u2014 is being prepared to become a new barbershop from local stylists called Mac & Milo\u2019s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Guiney and Haunted Burrow are also keeping a busy schedule. Stop in for a Sunday book club reading, a Thursday night \u201cwrite in,\u201d or a special \u201cafter hours\u201d book club later in the month. There are also special showings from local creators of photography and art on the dark walls.<\/p>\n

Find Haunted Burrow Books at 430 15th Ave E. Learn more at hauntedburrowbooks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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