Our Remarkable Story
In 1793, science fiction bookseller Nigel Ketter, facing massive legal action and an unprecedented public outcry (see The London Times for June 15th, 1793), sailed for Boston with several tons of collectible monster magazines and rarer-than-rare Arkham House titles. Upon reaching the New World, he made plans to travel south and set up a small book shop in the Caribbean (trading books for rum). Nigel accidentally confused North for South and ended up the arctic wilderness of Minnesota (see photo). He managed to survive by burning old Fanthorpe paperbacks for heat and by hunting (bashing) ice weasels and snow voles with the "Encyclopedia of Science Fiction." He waited. He advertised. He waited some more.
Settlers settled. The city grew.
But alas! No one had anything to read.
Thus (and finally!), in 1977, enterprising descendant Greg Ketter, sensing the needs of the public, opened his first store in Minneapolis.
The DreamHaven Empire had begun.
DreamHaven Books and Comics
DreamHaven Books is located in Uptown Minneapolis:
912 West Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408
(612) 823-6161
Authors & Artists who have appeared at DreamHaven include: Douglas Adams, Yoshitaka Amano, Barth Anderson, Poul Anderson, Eleanor Arnason, Clive Barker, Donna Barr, Greg Bear, John Berkey, Bruce Bethke, Steve Bissette, Robert Bloch, David Brin, Poppy Z. Brite, Terry Brooks, Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold, Emma Bull, Jack Cady, Orson Scott Card, Jonathan Carroll, Raphael Carter, Chris Claremont, Nancy Collins, Walter Crane, John Crowley, Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean, Charles de Lint, Samuel Delany, Gordon R. Dickson, Harlan Ellison, Ru Emerson, Raymond E. Feist, John Ferris, Phil Foglio, John M. Ford, Alan Dean Foster, Brian Froud, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Roberta Gregory, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Walter Hunt, Shelley Jackson, Phil Jennings, Peg Kerr, E.E. Knight, Ellen Kushner, Joe R. Lansdale, Kelly Link, Brian Lumley, George R.R. Martin, Robert McCammon, Jack McDevitt, Dave McKean, Dennis McKiernan, China Miéville, Elizabeth Moon, Christopher Moore, Jody Lynn Nye, John Picacio, Nick Pollata, Tim Powers, Terry Pratchett, Spider Robinson, Joel Rosenberg, P. Craig Russell, Robert Sheckley, Dave Sim, Dan Simmons, John Sladek, Art Spiegelman, Sheree Thomas, Jill Thompson, Charles Vess, Joan Vinge, Karl Edward Wagner, David Weber, Tad Williams, F. Paul Wilson, Gene Wolfe, Patricia Wrede, Jane Yolen, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Jim Young, and Roger Zelazny.
DreamHaven Press publishes books - including 'Angels and Visitations' by Neil Gaiman.
DreamHaven Mail Order sends out free monthly catalogs and ships books all over the world, including such places as: Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Venezuela.
If you order it, we will get it to you!