For whom the bell tolls.
Monday, June 5, 2023
Monday, May 29, 2023
570th Anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople
Labels:
15 century,
trolley to yesterday

This year - and indeed today - is the 570th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople. May 29, 1453, also marks one of the rare times when we can pinpoint an exact date of the events of one of John Bellairs's novels - namely, The Trolley to Yesterday (1989).
Monday, May 22, 2023
Interview Again: Derek Piotr
Labels:
fans - interview,
people - musicians,
things - music
We met musician Derek Piotr in 2018, and now we hear he's researching and recording traditional folk music. We had to know more; he was nice enough to share his answers again. He's sharing his archive online, too, and the best thing is you can contribute to it. But first - a few words on how he got started.
Monday, May 8, 2023
Anthony Monday Available as E-books
Open Road Media will publish the three remaining books in the Anthony Monday series as e-books on May 16. The Dark Secret of Weatherend (1984), The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb (1988), and The Manion in the Mist (1992) join The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (1978), published initially as an e-book back in 2014.
Monday, May 1, 2023
He was like, 'Hast thou led me to, like, Egypt, or whatever?'
The following quote from the autobiography of filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille resurfaced recently:
If 1,000 years from now, archaeologists happen to dig beneath the sands of Guadalupe, I hope they will not rush into print with the amazing news that Egyptian civilization, far from being confined to the valley of the Nile, extended all the way to the Pacific coast of North America.
Author:
bellairsia
Monday, April 10, 2023
Monday, April 3, 2023
Monday, March 27, 2023
Sunday, March 26, 2023
The House with a Clock in its Walls: Revisiting 50-Year-Old Book Reviews
It's not just The House with a Clock in its Walls turning 50 years old this year. It's also all the reviews from the various publishing journals. Just like the text of the book, some reviews have aged better than others. Here's a rundown of what we've collected over the years.
Monday, March 20, 2023
Monday, March 13, 2023
Monday, March 6, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Cover Critic: The House with a Clock in its Walls (Germany, 2000)
Cover Critic is our periodic survey of readers and fans about the various artwork and illustrations of the books in the Bellairs Corpus.
Monday, February 27, 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
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