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The Doom of the Haunted Opera

The Dark Secret of Weatherend
The Doom of the Haunted Opera
 (1995) is the sixth book in the Lewis Barnavelt series. It is  the fourth and final book completed by Brad Strickland.

Synopsis 

When Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger explore an old, abandoned theater, they find an unpublished opera score. Disregarding the warning of the ghost, they bring the sheet music to school, where The Day of Doom is heralded as a masterpiece. Then Henry Vanderhelm, the composer's grandson, arrives and manipulates the town into putting on a performance of the opera. Only Vanderhelm knows that when the opera is played, the dead will awaken...to help Henry Vanderhelm enslave the world! Will Lewis and Rose Rita stop the performance -- or watch the curtain rise on the undead?

Cast

Protagonists

  • Lewis Barnavelt
  • Rose Rita Pottinger
  • Jonathan Barnavelt
  • Florence Zimmermann
  • Mildred Jaeger

Antagonists

  • Henry Vanderhelm

Setting

  • Mid-1950s
  • New Zebedee, Michigan

Reference