In a London street he doesn't quite recognise, Alec Fraser — failed writer, widower, man of careful performances — finds a bookshop that shouldn't exist, a tearoom that wasn't there yesterday, and a pale stranger with violet eyes who introduces the four women at his table as his daughters. You might know who this man is. But Alec doesn't. What follows is a moral tale of haunting and bargains and the ancient mischief of the London Fae.

The Haunted Bookshop is the longest story in Tony Walker's The London Fae collection — a sequence of supernatural tales set in a London older and stranger than the one on the maps. Other stories in the series include The Silent Folk, The Frost Fair, and Thames Halloween Dark Ale, with The London Stone and The Crow in the Chimney still to come.