Faulkner House Books is described as being haunted by the ghost of William Faulkner himself, a literary landmark that honors the author who once lived and wrote his first novel, Soldier's Pay, there. Visitors and staff have reported smelling Faulkner's pipe tobacco and seeing his ghostly image sitting at his original writing desk within the bookstore. The bookstore is located in a 19th-century townhouse on Pirate's Alley in New Orleans' French Quarter. The primary reported phenomena are the scent of pipe tobacco and the visual apparition of William Faulkner. Witnesses have seen what they believe is Faulkner's ghost sitting at a writing desk inside the bookstore, which was his workspace when he lived there.