https://www.salon.com/2004/05/24/smith_23/Excerpt from Gothic....It had been a bookshop for*** hundreds of years, in the same old building full of hidden corners,
*** sudden staircases, unexpected rooms.***** People had died in that bookshop. Old members of staff were
I much preferred working down on the ground floor; where I'd worked first, up in a room off a staircase at the back of the second floor, we were always having to clear up after the people who urinated in True Crime, the spines of Dead by Sunset, The Yorkshire Ripper, Massacre, Crimes Against Humanity, Perfect Victim, The Faber Book of Murder dripping again under the fluorescent light. We called the urinators the Gothics.