Something About the Witch House

And a familiar unknown.

Something About Occult Britain

Ghosts will haunt it still.

Something About Spellbinding Cheese

Eat your heart out, Cheesemen of Doom.

Something About Gashadokuro (がしゃどくろ)

Bad to the bone.

Something About Yōkai (妖怪)

Ghost of a chance.

Something About Yūrei (幽霊)

In ghostly Japan.

Something About Usborne’s Supernatural World

Nightmare fuel.

That Thou Shalt Like An Airy Spirit Go

Last year we celebrated forty years of The House with a Clock in its Walls by highlighting some of the people, places, and things that John mentioned in the text, including this about celebrated John Dee:

After moving into his uncle’s house Lewis Barnavelt spends time going through a lot of books, including one whose frontispiece is an engraving of this person raising the spirit of a dead woman [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 67-8].

Who’s Who: John Dee

After moving into his uncle’s house Lewis Barnavelt spends time going through a lot of books, including one whose frontispiece is an engraving of this person raising the spirit of a dead woman [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 67-8].

Roger Bacon, Chewing the Fat?

Does this story sound familiar to anyone outside of The Face in the Frost? We're wondering if this may be another legend surrounding Roger Bacon (like the brazen head story) Bellairs borrowed and gave his own twist.