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When Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger explore an old, abandoned theater, they find an unpublished opera score.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
