The Metal From the Stars

Some fans are writing some fan fiction, including this piece by David Hines called The Metal From the Stars:

On a cold winter day in 1957, Lewis Barnavelt was happily sprawled across his uncle’s sofa, a bowl of popcorn in his lap and a baseball game on the television. The television was black-and-white, of course, but Lewis’s Uncle Jonathan, who was a wizard, had worked some magic on it that made baseball games come through in color. Jonathan wasn’t a very good wizard, though, so the teams were wearing the wrong colors as often as not, and once the Yankees’ pinstripes had mysteriously changed to polka dots.

The author has some commentary, too:

I had thought that everybody had read John Bellairs as a kid. Apparently that’s not the case, because when I was looking desperately for a beta I found out that nobody I knew had even *heard* of the Lewis Barnavelt series.