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Monday, July 25, 2022

Something About the Ottoman Parties

Labels: places - turkey, trolley to yesterday

Turkish delights.

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Monday, July 18, 2022

Something About Bellairsian Influences

Labels: fans - inspiration

John Bellairs continues to influence today's readers and writers in various ways:

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Monday, July 4, 2022

Something About the Curse of the Obelisk

Labels: dark secret of weatherend, places - england, things - sculptures

On pins.

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"If children spent more time learning obscure facts and less time watching television, the world would be a better place."

Emerson Eells,
The Dark Secret of Weatherend (1984)

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Index - Bellairs Corpus

  • beast under the wizards bridge (12)
  • bell the book and the spellbinder (9)
  • chessmen of doom (9)
  • curse of the blue figurine (20)
  • dark secret of weatherend (22)
  • dolphin cross (9)
  • doom of the haunted opera (12)
  • drum the doll and the zombie (6)
  • eyes of the killer robot (9)
  • face in the frost (60)
  • figure in the shadows (24)
  • gargoyle in the dump (2)
  • ghost in the mirror (12)
  • hand of the necromancer (9)
  • house where nobody lived (15)
  • house with a clock in its walls (118)
  • lamp from the warlocks tomb (14)
  • letter the witch and the ring (17)
  • mansion in the mist (16)
  • mummy the will and the crypt (22)
  • pedant and the shuffly (17)
  • revenge of the wizards ghost (18)
  • saint fidgeta (49)
  • secret of the underground room (20)
  • sign of the sinister sorcerer (8)
  • specter from the magician's museum (15)
  • spell of the sorcerers skull (26)
  • stone the cipher and the shadows (4)
  • tower at the end of the world (15)
  • treasure of alpheus winterborn (20)
  • trolley to yesterday (22)
  • two magicians (1)
  • vengeance of the witch-finder (7)
  • whistle the grave and the ghost (10)
  • wrath of the grinning ghost (10)

Index - Adaptations

  • adaptations (7)
  • audiobooks (4)
  • clue according to sherlock holmes (8)
  • figure in the shadows (film) (3)
  • house with a clock in its walls (film) (47)
  • once upon a midnight scary (5)

Index - Bellairs Bibliofile

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  • bibliofile - england (5)
  • bibliofile - france (22)
  • bibliofile - germany (4)
  • bibliofile - italy (7)
  • bibliofile - japan (14)
  • bibliofile - poland (4)
  • bibliofile - portugal (2)
  • bibliofile - united states (18)

Index - Names

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  • names - dickens charles (8)
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  • names - gorey edward (85)
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Index - People

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  • people - artists (1)
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  • people - musicians (5)
  • people - politicians (3)
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Index - Places

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  • places - europe (1)
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  • places - italy (6)
  • places - japan (7)
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  • things - tropes (3)
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  • things - yule (10)

Index - Almanac

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  • 11 century (4)
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  • 20 century - 1960s (42)
  • 20 century - 1970s (5)
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Index - Fans

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  • fandom (171)
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  • fans - art (15)
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  • fans - inspiration (33)
  • fans - interview (21)
  • fans - itinerary (4)
  • fans - question box (5)
  • fans - quiz (1)
  • fans - quotations (1)
  • fans - reviews (221)
  • fans - survey (15)
  • fans - testimony (29)
  • fans - top10 (13)
  • fans - what if (6)
  • video (11)

Index - Reference

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  • dedications (4)
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