Happy Birthday, John Bellairs

Join us in celebrating what would have been the 88th birthday of John Bellairs! His dancing soul doth celebrate!

Happy Birthday, John Bellairs

The calendar rolls around again as we celebrate the 87th birthday of John Bellairs.

Happy Birthday, John Bellairs

We take a moment to raise a glass to John Bellairs on what would have been his 86th birthday. Cheers!

Happy Birthday, John Bellairs

Another year rolls around and we celebrate the 85th birthday of John Bellairs.

Happy Birthday, John Bellairs

Join us in celebrating what would have been the 84th birthday of John Bellairs!

Happy Birthday, John Bellairs

Another Jan. 17 rolls by and we take a moment to celebrate what would have been the 83rd birthday of John Bellairs.

Hapy Birthday, John Bellairs

We're celebrating John Bellairs's 81st birthday this year -- and eighty years since his first birthday party:

Time Capsule: Jan. 27, 1938

We noted John's eightieth birthday earlier this month on Jan. 17.  Today’s the eightieth anniversary of his coming home from the hospital.  It’s not surprising to see he was born in Oaklawn Hospital, likely similar to the hospital Lewis visits at the end of The Figure in the Shadows (1975).

These Eighty Years: #HappyBirthday #JohnBellairs

Celebrating what would have been the 80th birthday of John Bellairs, born this 17th day of January in 1938, in Marshall, Michigan.  Birthday wishes courtesy of:

#JohnBellairs, author of my fave book #HouseWithAClockInItsWalls would have been 80 today. Happy Birthday, sir. It's an honor & a life goal adapting your book into a movie. (Everyone! Read the book! Then see the movie this fall!) @eliroth #JackBlack #CateBlanchett https://t.co/vLkon8kxwL

— Eric Kripke (@therealKripke) January 17, 2018

John Bellairs' birthday is Jan 17! In celebration, I just posted about Tim Powers and Bellairs. @Bellairsia: #HouseWithAClockInItsWalls #johnbellairs https://t.co/uVw34q3uW2

— Ned Hayes (@nedwriting) January 17, 2018

Happy Birthday, #BradStrickland!

"Coming from the South, I grew up in a family of storytellers. My aunts, uncles, and grandparents told tales of enchantment and terror involving vanishing hitchhikers, spirits of the dead wandering graveyards in the form of flickering flames, buried Confederate gold, indelible bloodstains at the site of murders … topics to make a child’s flesh creep. However, I always wanted more and never failed to listen.

"The reading audience is very special and it’s always pleasant to discover these stores’ appeal to others. I hope the young people who read my work will enjoy it half as much as I enjoy writing it, and its good to hope that perhaps some of them will go on to become tellers of tales, masters of terror, workers of wonder."

Thanks for listening, Brad, and thanks for writing. Happy Birthday from your friends and fans at Bellairsia.

Quote from Something About the Author vol. 83. © 1996.

This Is My Birth-Day

We celebrate the 78th birthday of author John Bellairs. It's not a platinum anniversary (close: 70) but 78 is the atomic number of that metal. And that's your trivia for the day.


Cheers, John.

This Is My Birth-Day

We celebrate the 77th birthday of John Bellairs with this posting from Suzanne Fischer at HiLoBrow.com, whose members pay tribute to high- or low-brow heroes on his or her birthdays. Or something like that, we suppose.

He Was Wont To Shine At Seventy-Five

John celebrates his semisesquicentennial birthday this year. Hmmm...while that Latin does sound impressive, "75th birthday" actually sounds more practical.

Cheers, John!

Time Capsule: January 16, 1968

And tomorrow I will be thirty.

This is my birth-day; as this very day

Happy birthday to John Bellairs on what would have been his 69th birthday.

Happy Birthday, M.R. James

We celebrate what would have been the 144th birthday of historian and author Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), long remembered for his series of ghost stories. Following English tradition, many of his 30-plus stories were written and read aloud during Christmas Eve gatherings of friends.