Our Collaborators

Nikki Steinbaugh has been a bookseller for over a decade and has an MA in English with a focus on neo-Victorian Gothic literature, which made things super awkward with many of her classmates.  She started The Macabre Librarian as an online store in 2018 and brought blind date with book in pop-up form to the QC area in 2022. She is constantly looking for ways to encourage people to read dangerously.

Nikki currently works at her local library to supplement TML, which she hopes to evolve into a brick-and-mortar store. She likes the month of October, horror stories, talking to animals (scaled, furred, and feathered), iced tea,  trips to New Orleans, true crime podcasts, and her pet bunnies and tortoises. Her favorite book is The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice.