Something About the Witch House

And a familiar unknown.

Something More About the Hoosac Tunnel

Fright at the end.

Something About Fried Clams

Shell-shocked.

Something About John Bellairs’s Favorites

Favor fav!

Something About Johnny Dixon Collapsing

Frankly speaking.

Something About Rocks Village

Off the beaten path.

Time Capsule: March 8, 1991

From the March 9, 1991 edition of the Haverhill Gazette:

Something About Massachusetts State Physical Fitness Week

We can work it out.

Something About the Haverhill Civil War Monument

With the young noble soldier.

Something About Gildersleeve

A hard clue to crack.

Something About a Purple Wooden Fish

Without purple-hued malt-worms.

Something About Warren Windrow

Hare be rows.

Something About #BobMontana

Archie Deluxe!

Something Else About Spy Pond

Another ponderous thing!

Something About Spy Pond

A most ponderous thing!

An Interview with #PriscillaBellairs

Back in May, Priscilla Bellairs sat down with Dr. Chris for an enlightening interview on the Radio of Horror . If you missed the original broadcast, here's the audio. Happy listening!

Haverhill’s Horror Movie Heritage

WHAV radio notes some of the people associated with Haverhill that have contributed to horror movies over the years just in time for Halloween. In addition to John Bellairs - noting his Johnny Dixon series (set in "a thinly-veiled 1950s Haverhill") and the impending movie adaptation of The House with a Clock in its Walls - Dave Goudsward passes along the following biographies:

Memoriam: Alfred O. Myers

For those of you that have enjoyed the biographical bits and pieces that we've come up with over the years at Bellairsia, you must tip your hat, as we do, to John Bellairs's friend, Alfred Myers.  Myers was a New Yorker by birth but whose family had moved to the Chicago area.  Myers attended Notre Dame as a business major and during his freshman year decided to share a bit of newly-found trivia:

A Quarter Century Later...

...and we remember John Bellairs.

Researching the PMLA Again

Not too long ago we found ourselves with access to JSTOR and we thought, on a whim, we might finally nail down the long-running PMLA question.