An Unearthly Bookshop

[bunn]

We went to Bere Alston today, in search of a second hand bookshop.   Bere Alston is a large village in the middle of the Bere Peninsula, which is an oddity in that it is a sort of fully-retracted peninsula in the middle of a land mass.  It is separated from Cornwall and the rest of Devon by rivers that bend round to make it almost an island.   So

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[ladyofastolat]

According to the internet (and they do exist there, and sell via loads of different online booky places), it's a bookshop that specialises in "Occult, Psychology." Therefore they were probably observing you, either to study your reaction ("Hmmm," they were going, "interesting!" and scrawling down little notes) or to see if you were suitable for their mystic, arcane purposes. You were wise to escape when you did.

[huinare]

They were probably sitting and observing at the filthy computer the whole time...invisible to the unaided human eye.

(Just to make Bunn and Pp feel even more comforted about the whole affair! =D)

[bunn]

YES. THIS.

[bunn]

Apparently Pp *knew* it was an Occult bookshop, although he only admitted this afterwards!

None of the books I looked at *seemed* Occult - they were mostly history, local and international - there was quite a nice edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall - and lots of ancient disintegrating guidebooks. Oh, and a book by Giles Brandreth, according to Pp, and one short story by Philip K Dick. But Pp reckons that he found some Occult stuff on one of the shelves in the Very Dark section of the shop, which I did not dare to venture into.

[parrot_knight]

Perhaps Occult describes its principles of operation more than it does its holdings...