The Atlantis Bookshop is an esoteric bookshop in Museum Street, London, U.K. Established by Michael Houghton in 1922, it is currently owned and run by Bali Beskin and her mother Geraldine.
Atlantis has long been a hub for London’s occult world. Gerald Gardner attended meetings of The Order of the Hidden Masters in its basement during his formative years, and also held meetings of his own Coven there. The shop published his first book on witchcraft, the novel High Magic’s Aid. Here he also met Ross Nichols, later a key figure in the Druid world, who edited Gardner’s 1954 Witchcraft Today.
The shop featured in the British 1971 film Gumshoe that was the directorial debut of Stephen Frears and starred Albert Finney.
In the 1980s, the Odin Brotherhood used the shop as a contact point.
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