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Kennedy: Introducing the ‘Cracker Barrel’ of goth stores in Chattanooga


Looking for some Saturday-morning fun?

Go to Aretha Frankenstein’s restaurant on the North Shore for pancakes and then wander over to the Gothic Trading Co. next door, where you can shop for everything from monster-inspired baby clothes to Victorian-style corsets.

(READ MORE: Great breakfasts are the payoff for those who wait at Aretha Frankenstein’s.)

“People say we’re like a Gothic Cracker Barrel,” said Lisa Porter, 45, the owner-operator of the Gothic Trading Co., which opened three months ago at 514 Tremont St.