{"id":257078,"date":"2025-09-26T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257078\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:46:12","slug":"nycs-first-horror-bookstore-permanently-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257078\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s first horror bookstore permanently opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758923171_317_cover.jpg\" alt=\"CREDIT: @twistedspinebooks on Instagram\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">CREDIT: @twistedspinebooks on Instagram <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>BROOKLYN<\/strong> &#8211; Book lovers rejoice \u2013 a bookstore dedicated to the horror genre has lurched into Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>   The Twisted Spine <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twistedspinebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Twisted Spine<\/a>, now permanently open at 306 Grand Street in Brooklyn, is the city&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twistedspinebooks.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">horror-focused bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/twisted-spine.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">CREDIT: @twistedspinebooks on Instagram <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The bookstore, which held its first pop-up event one year ago, opened its doors at its brick-and-mortar location on Sept. 6. The location also features a cafe and a beer and wine bar.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Founders Lauren Komer and Jason Mellow spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/24\/us-news\/nycs-first-horror-bookstore-the-twisted-spine-opens-hawking-frankenstein-to-modern-classics-nothing-else-like-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> about their experience opening their permanent location.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We had a line down the block for six hours, and people were waiting for up to two hours to get in,&#8221; co-owner Lauren Komer told the Post.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The two began selling paperbacks at the pop-up bookstore last year, but their five-year plan to establish a permanent store accelerated quickly. Their Kickstarter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/twistedspinebooks\/nyc-horror-bookstore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised $40,000<\/a> within months, allowing the two to get their plan rolling.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bookstore.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">CREDIT: @twistedspinebooks on Instagram <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Opening hours vary depending on the day of the week:<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday \u2013 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Friday and Saturday \u2013 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Sunday \u2013 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The bookstore will hold several events throughout the month of October:<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This article includes information provided by The Twisted Spine website and reporting from The New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holidays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article CREDIT: @twistedspinebooks on Instagram BROOKLYN &#8211; Book lovers rejoice \u2013 a bookstore dedicated to the horror genre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,1121,171,7709,50,5228,5227,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-257078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115272796540319314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}