Angela Trigg says the Haunted Book Shop's new location puts everything on one level, with a larger children's area and a tighter focus on the categories of books that have been its strength.Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com

On a recent Thursday, without fanfare, Mobile’s Haunted Book Shop held the softest of soft openings at its new home.

For the downtown Mobile business, it was the start of a new chapter in a story nearly four years in the making (or more than 80 years, depending on how you count it). The move itself was in the works for two weeks (more like seven months, really). And while it involved exactly one cat, there’s no telling how many books or ghosts were involved.

Any way you slice it, the effort ramped up dramatically on July 13, when a Two Men and a Truck crew showed up for a heavy lift from 109 Dauphin St. to a location a couple of blocks west and around the corner: 9 S. Joachim St., just across from the Mobile Saenger Theatre box office.

Owner Angela Trigg stood in the old store, where some shelves and sections remained stocked while others stood bare. “It’s a monumental undertaking,” she said.

(Anybody’s who’s moved knows those boxes of books are the heaviest thing, right?)

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