The Grim Reader Bookshop, a horror-focused mobile bookstore built out of a converted hearse, will open a bricks-and-mortar store this spring, Secret Atlanta reported.
Store owner Olivia Doyle has found a space at 1082 Huff Rd., Suite C, in Atlanta's Blandtown neighborhood. The bricks-and-mortar store will be a "moody third space" featuring a plethora of horror fiction as well as nonbook items made by local artists and creators. The Grim Reader will also host a variety of community events.
"We delightfully learned that Atlanta really loves spooky books and strange spaces," Doyle told Secret Atlanta. "So we decided to put roots down and build a place where people could come hang out, browse eerie books, and feel extremely normal about loving weird things."
The bricks-and-mortar store will open, fittingly, on Friday the 13th (March 13). Doyle plans to continue doing pop-up events around Atlanta afterward.